Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: various pattern fixes for mv/rm/typos

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Oct 31 2017 - 11:56:00 EST


On Tue, 2017-10-31 at 09:46 -0500, Tom Saeger wrote:
> Several stale or typo'd "F" "X" patterns fixed.

This sort of patch is almost impossible to apply as
MAINTAINERS is updated by many many people and this
probably won't apply tomorrow.

It's generally _much_ better to break out each of these
changes into separate patches.

It also allows each individual patch to describe what
happened via renames/moves or other updates.

fyi:

My list of currently invalid file patterns in -next

drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion_test.h
arch/arm/include/asm/clkdev.h
arch/arm/mach-pxa/include/mach/palmtreo.h
arch/arm/mach-pxa/include/mach/palmt5.h
arch/arm/mach-pxa/include/mach/palmte2.h
arch/arm/mach-pxa/include/mach/palmz72.h
drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.h
arch/arm/plat-samsung/s5p-dev-mfc.c
include/media/atmel-isi.h
arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/ns2*
Documentation/sound/alsa/Bt87x.txt
Documentation/module-signing.txt
kernel/cpuset.c
drivers/media/i2c/cs3308.h
include/media/cx2341x*
include/uapi/scsi/cxlflash_ioctls.h
drivers/input/dlink-dir685-touchkeys.c
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/st7586.txt
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/drm/atmel/
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/nec,nl4827hc19_05b.txt
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/fman.txt
drivers/staging/greybus/fw-managament.c
drivers/staging/greybus/timesync.c
drivers/staging/greybus/timesync_platform.c
drivers/crypto/nx/nx_debugfs.h
arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/vas.h
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/multiplexer/iio-mux.txt
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/ina209.txt
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/gyroscope/inv,mpu3050.txt
include/linux/keyctl.h
arch/*/include/asm/mutex*.h
drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/
drivers/hwmon/max20751.c
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/max6697.txt
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/bridge/megachips-stdpxxxx-ge-b850v3-fw.txt
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ipsec/*
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/ipsec*
Documentation/ABI/testing/mux/sysfs-class-mux*
include/linux/dt-bindings/mux/
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mxsfb-drm.txt
net/core/flow.c
drivers/misc/panel.c
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/pcie-kirin.txt
drivers/iio/adc/rcar_gyro_adc.c
include/media/saa7146*
kernel/rcu/srcu.c
Documentation/sound/alsa/compress_offload.txt
Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/
drivers/staging/ft1000/
drivers/staging/media/st-cec/
include/dt-bindings/genpd/k2g.h
Documentation/usb/typec.rst
fs/hppfs/
drivers/vhost/vsock.h
include/uapi/linux/wil6210_uapi.h
Documentation/input/yealink.rst