Re: [PATCH 6/6] MAINTAINERS: Add Michal Vokáč as yapp4 boards maintainer

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 13/02/2023 10:08, Michal Vokáč wrote:
> On 11. 02. 23 12:46, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 10/02/2023 16:48, Michal Vokáč wrote:
>>> Number of the boards is continually growing and we expect more to come.
>>> Add myself as a maintainer of the yapp4 (ysoft appliance v4) platform to
>>> state that we do take care about all of these.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Michal Vokáč <michal.vokac@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>   MAINTAINERS | 6 ++++++
>>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>> index fb1471cb5ed3..4d4d9ffc700c 100644
>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>> @@ -23005,6 +23005,12 @@ S:	Maintained
>>>   F:	Documentation/input/devices/yealink.rst
>>>   F:	drivers/input/misc/yealink.*
>>>   
>>> +YSOFT IOTA BOARD SUPPORT
>>> +M:	Michal Vokáč <michal.vokac@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> +L:	devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> +S:	Supported
>>> +F:	arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6*-yapp4*
>>
>> I don't think we add per-board maintainers. Otherwise, I have 50 more
>> entries to add...
> 
> I have got drawn into it by the checkpatch.pl script saying:
> 
> WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating?
> 
> So I went through the MAINTAINERS file and its git log with .dts related
> changes. I found some individual board entries and quite recent changes
> adding new ones. Hence I decided this could be right.

They are not right, but solution to that took some time:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/829b122da52482707b783dc3d93d3ff0179cb0ca.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx/

> 
> Never mind, I agree there is definitely not a maintainer entry for every
> board supported by the kernel and this patch can be omitted.


Best regards,
Krzysztof