MAINTAINERS section RISC-V/MICROCHIP POLARFIRE SOC SUPPORT with invalid file references

Palmer Dabbelt palmer at dabbelt.com
Thu Apr 29 07:20:23 BST 2021


On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 23:31:17 PDT (-0700), atishp at atishpatra.org wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 9:15 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Patish, dear Conor, dear Palmer,
>>
>> Commit df29598aaf5c ("MAINTAINERS: add microchip polarfire soc
>> support") adds the new section RISC-V/MICROCHIP POLARFIRE SOC SUPPORT,
>> but that section solely refers to files that do not exist in the
>> repository.
>>
>> Hence, ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --self-test=patterns complains:
>>
>>   warning: no file matches    F:    drivers/soc/microchip/
>>   warning: no file matches    F:    include/soc/microchip/mpfs.h
>>
>> The patch series, [PATCH v4 0/5] Add Microchip PolarFire Soc Support,
>> never adds those files, though. Are they coming through a different
>> patch series into Linus' tree or do you intend to refer to other files
>> instead?
>>
>
> The actual files are added as a part of the following series.
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-riscv/list/?series=467187
>
> As the "Add Microchip PolarFire Soc Support" series added the basic SoC support,
> we thought it is better to update the maintainers file in this series
> to provide the information about
> the maintainers for the PolarFire Soc.
>
> Should we just remove the Files section or update the maintainers in
> the SoC system controller series ?

I've just dropped this from my tree, it's best to keep it along with the 
drivers.



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