Re: Bad MAINTAINERS pattern in section 'ACPI'

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Mon Oct 01 2018 - 14:54:18 EST


On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 06:06:17PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> [+cc Tony, Borislav (ACPI APEI reviewers), linux-pci]
>
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 02:50:53PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Please fix this defect appropriately.
> >
> > linux-next MAINTAINERS section:
> >
> > 308 ACPI
> > 309 M: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 310 M: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 311 L: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 312 W: https://01.org/linux-acpi
> > 313 Q: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-acpi/list/
> > 314 T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
> > 315 B: https://bugzilla.kernel.org
> > 316 S: Supported
> > 317 F: drivers/acpi/
> > 318 F: drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/
> > 319 F: include/linux/acpi.h
> > 320 F: include/linux/fwnode.h
> > 321 F: include/acpi/
> > 322 F: Documentation/acpi/
> > 323 F: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-acpi
> > 324 F: Documentation/ABI/testing/configfs-acpi
> > 325 F: drivers/pci/*acpi*
> > 326 F: drivers/pci/*/*acpi*
> > --> 327 F: drivers/pci/*/*/*acpi*
> > 328 F: tools/power/acpi/
>
> My proposal to fix this:
>
> commit a99051c0d3c59fd259fd76a8bbd9837b76b509d9
> Author: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri Sep 28 17:34:21 2018 -0500
>
> MAINTAINERS: Remove obsolete drivers/pci pattern from ACPI section
>
> Prior to 256a45937093 ("PCI/AER: Squash aerdrv_acpi.c into aerdrv.c"),
> drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_acpi.c contained code to parse the ACPI HEST
> table. That code now lives in drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c.
>
> Remove the "F: drivers/pci/*/*/*acpi*" pattern because it matches nothing.
>
> We could add a "F: drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c" pattern to the ACPI APEI
> section, but that file sees a lot of changes, almost none of which are of
> interest to the ACPI folks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 700408b7bc53..9babd8a0406b 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -324,7 +324,6 @@ F: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-acpi
> F: Documentation/ABI/testing/configfs-acpi
> F: drivers/pci/*acpi*
> F: drivers/pci/*/*acpi*
> -F: drivers/pci/*/*/*acpi*
> F: tools/power/acpi/
>
> ACPI APEI

Applied with Rafael's ack to for-linus for v4.19.