Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for TM16xx driver

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Aug 20 2025 - 16:30:33 EST


On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 10:08:06PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM Jean-François Lessard
> > <jefflessard3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Besides the missing commit message, the main part of this patch should
> > be merged with the patch 2 where the YAML file is being added.
> > Otherwise it will be a dangling file. I dunno if DT tooling has its
> > own concept of a maintainer database, though.
>
> get_maintainer.pl will pull the maintainer out of the file, so it won't be
> truly dangling without a way to associate Jean-François with this file, if
> that;s what you mean.

Let's assume patch 2 is applied and patch 4 is not, what will be the
result of get_maintainer.pl for the YAML file?


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko