Re: [PATCH 4/6] MAINTAINERS: Remove unused PERFORMANCE EVENTS pattern

[Ingo Molnar]

* Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 09:40 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > No arch/*/lib/perf_event* files exist so remove the pattern.
> > The arch/*/lib/ hierarchy is a common place to put stuff into, it 
> > does not hurt at all to have it mentioned.
> 
> Every once in awhile I run a script on MAINTAINERS
> and fix up defects found by the script.
>
> Dead code is dead code.
> This was unused as of commit e360adbe2924.

NAK, i've outlined my reasons:

 - It's an obvious pattern to put librarized functionality in there
   and should an architecture grow a file there in the future it
   will be included automatically.

 - What we are interested in are false positives (files included that
   should not be matched) and false negatives (files belonging to a
   subsystm not included) - this pattern is none of those.

> > stop mucking with these patterns and start dealing with some of 
> > the more important problems we have?
> 
> My time, my choice on what to do with it.

Yes, but this time you are also wasting my time with such a stupid 
patch, so it's not just your time wasted anymore.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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