Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Limit KVM RISC-V entry to existing selftests

From: Anup Patel
Date: Wed Jun 01 2022 - 06:44:20 EST


On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 2:21 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Commit fed9b26b2501 ("MAINTAINERS: Update KVM RISC-V entry to cover
> selftests support") optimistically adds a file entry for
> tools/testing/selftests/kvm/riscv/, but this directory does not exist.
>
> Hence, ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --self-test=patterns complains about a
> broken reference. The script is very useful to keep MAINTAINERS up to date
> and MAINTAINERS can be kept in a state where the script emits no warning.
>
> So, just drop the non-matching file entry rather than starting to collect
> exceptions of entries that may match in some close or distant future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Anup, please consider to pick this minor clean-up patch.

Sure, I will include this as fix for 5.19-rcX

Thanks,
Anup

>
> MAINTAINERS | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 36eab5ae237d..a8eee9d2aea5 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -10863,7 +10863,6 @@ F: arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm*
> F: arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/kvm*
> F: arch/riscv/kvm/
> F: tools/testing/selftests/kvm/*/riscv/
> -F: tools/testing/selftests/kvm/riscv/
>
> KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE for s390 (KVM/s390)
> M: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> --
> 2.17.1
>