Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: enable MAINTAINERS warning only for --strict,--subjective

[Kevin Cernekee]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 23:35 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
>> The rule which delivers this warning is very prone to errors:
>>   "added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating?"
>> so it should not be enabled by default.
>
> I don't think so.
>
> It's _far_ more common for people to forget to
> update MAINTAINERS so I think it's quite useful
> even if it's slightly noisy.

In a recent submission I saw a bunch of these warnings too, even
though I had already added MAINTAINERS entries.

If this is just a friendly reminder ("hey, please double-check X
before you send") rather than an indication that a suspected problem
was detected in the patch, perhaps it would be better if it lived in
Documentation/SubmitChecklist?
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