Re: Updating MAINTAINERS and Documentation/video4linux F: patterns

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:22:51 +0300
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Sat, 10 Sep 2016, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > After all the moving of video4linux Documentation file locations
> > around and converting .txt files to .rst, can you please update
> > the appropriate MAINTAINERS sections and F: patterns?  
> 
> Hmm, for patches doing rename/create/delete, checkpatch could look at
> MAINTAINERS and remind the user if a MAINTAINERS update is needed.

Good point. Checkpatch does that already, as I remember from time to
time I receive such warnings when a new driver is created, renamed or
removed. I didn't notice it on my patchset though. 

Perhaps it excludes Documentation/ from the check logic.

Regards,
Mauro

PS.: In the specific case of media docs, I submitted a patch
yesterday addressing those renames.