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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] checkpatch: warn about missing MAINTAINERS file
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Thomas Huth |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] checkpatch: warn about missing MAINTAINERS file changes |
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Mon, 12 Mar 2018 14:46:20 +0100 |
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On 12.03.2018 14:18, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Warn if files are added/renamed/deleted without MAINTAINERS file
> changes. This has helped me in Linux and we could benefit from this
> check in QEMU.
>
> This patch is a manual cherry-pick of Linux commit
> 13f1937ef33950b1112049972249e6191b82e6c9 ("checkpatch: emit a warning on
> file add/move/delete") by Joe Perches <address@hidden>.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> ---
> Note the 80-char lines are from upstream code. Keep them as-is.
>
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index d1fe79bcc4..d0d8f63d48 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1177,6 +1177,7 @@ sub process {
> our $clean = 1;
> my $signoff = 0;
> my $is_patch = 0;
> + my $reported_maintainer_file = 0;
>
> our @report = ();
> our $cnt_lines = 0;
> @@ -1379,6 +1380,24 @@ sub process {
> }
> }
>
> +# Check if MAINTAINERS is being updated. If so, there's probably no need to
> +# emit the "does MAINTAINERS need updating?" message on file add/move/delete
> + if ($line =~ /^\s*MAINTAINERS\s*\|/) {
> + $reported_maintainer_file = 1;
> + }
> +
> +# Check for added, moved or deleted files
> + if (!$reported_maintainer_file &&
> + ($line =~ /^(?:new|deleted) file mode\s*\d+\s*$/ ||
> + $line =~ /^rename (?:from|to) [\w\/\.\-]+\s*$/ ||
> + ($line =~ /\{\s*([\w\/\.\-]*)\s*\=\>\s*([\w\/\.\-]*)\s*\}/
> &&
> + (defined($1) || defined($2))))) {
> + $is_patch = 1;
> + $reported_maintainer_file = 1;
> + WARN("added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS
> need updating?\n" .
> + $herecurr);
Could you please turn this into a notification instead of a warning? For
rationale, please see the discussion of this patch last year:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-01/msg05753.html
Thanks,
Thomas