Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: adjust to filesystem doc ReST conversion

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Mar 04 2020 - 15:26:38 EST


On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 13:10 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 08:29:50 +0100
> Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --self-test complains with 27
> > warnings on Documentation/filesystems/ of this kind:
> >
> > warning: no file matches F: Documentation/filesystems/...
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> Sigh, I need to work a MAINTAINERS check into my workflow...

checkpatch already bleats a warning on patches with any
file move or rename.

It would be difficult to impossible to implement a real
pattern verification mechanism in checkpatch though.