Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: MAINTAINERS: warn on missing paths

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2026-07-12 at 16:14 +0800, Eugene Mavick wrote:
> ```
> Warn when F: or X: entries point to nonexistent files or patterns.
> There have been instances of typos in file entries in the past, and this
> patch helps prevents that.

Just fyi:

if you care to do something about the missing MAINTAINER file patterns

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --self-test=patterns
./MAINTAINERS:2764: warning: no file matches	F:	arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/ts72xx.c
./MAINTAINERS:7654: warning: no file matches	F:	include/linux/dma-buf/
./MAINTAINERS:7897: warning: no file matches	F:	include/linux/drbd*
./MAINTAINERS:10017: warning: no file matches	F:	include/linux/fs_types.h
./MAINTAINERS:12694: warning: no file matches	F:	drivers/gpu/drm/ci/xfails/powervr*
./MAINTAINERS:16731: warning: no file matches	F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/bridge/megachips-stdpxxxx-ge-b850v3-fw.txt
./MAINTAINERS:21913: warning: no file matches	F:	sound/arm/pxa*
./MAINTAINERS:22364: warning: no file matches	F:	include/dt-bindings/media/*qcom*
./MAINTAINERS:25130: warning: no file matches	F:	tools/testing/selftests/net/so_txtime.c
./MAINTAINERS:25342: warning: no file matches	F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/i2c/sony,imx678.yaml
./MAINTAINERS:28376: warning: no file matches	F:	include/linux/vsi-iommu.h