Re: [PATCH 13/13] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for the bitmap API

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2021-03-16 at 21:47 -0700, Yury Norov wrote:
> [CC Andy Whitcroft, Joe Perches, Dwaipayan Ray, Lukas Bulwahn]
> 
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 01:45:51PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 06:54:24PM -0700, Yury Norov wrote:
> > > Add myself as maintainer for bitmap API and Andy and Rasmus as reviewers.
> > > 
> > > I'm an author of current implementation of lib/find_bit and an active
> > > contributor to lib/bitmap. It was spotted that there's no maintainer for
> > > bitmap API. I'm willing to maintain it.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Acked-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  MAINTAINERS | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > index 3dd20015696e..44f94cdd5a20 100644
> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > @@ -3151,6 +3151,22 @@ F:	Documentation/filesystems/bfs.rst
> > >  F:	fs/bfs/
> > >  F:	include/uapi/linux/bfs_fs.h
> > >  
> > > 
> > > +BITMAP API
> > > +M:	Yury Norov <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > +R:	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > +R:	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > +S:	Maintained
> > > +F:	include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h
> > > +F:	include/linux/bitmap.h
> > > +F:	lib/bitmap.c
> > > +F:	lib/find_bit.c
> > 
> > > +F:	lib/find_find_bit_benchmark.c
> > 
> > Does this file exist?
> > I guess checkpatch.pl nowadays has a MAINTAINER data base validation.
> 
> No lib/find_find_bit_benchmark.c doesn't exist. It's a typo, it should
> be lib/find_bit_benchmark.c. Checkpatch doesn't warn:
> 
> yury:linux$ scripts/checkpatch.pl 0013-MAINTAINERS-Add-entry-for-the-bitmap-API.patch
> total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 22 lines checked

checkpatch does not validate filenames for each patch.

checkpatch does have a --self-test=patterns capability that does
validate file accessibility.