Linux ships with thousands of device trees and device tree maintainers have indicated that they don't want to see hundreds of maintainer entries added for them[1]. Yet, checkpatch.pl keeps warning about it, which is annoying: WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating? Avoid this by making the warning conditional on the file not having a .dts or .dtsi extension. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/e3b73baf-b36b-17c0-f414-bbf2dd746411@xxxxxxxxxx/ [1] Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 7b28ad3317427a6bf9e27b77065aa3915cb13053..269cfa459162bbc00c2372cfcb0da709f9202a79 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3401,7 +3401,7 @@ sub process { } # Check for added, moved or deleted files - if (!$reported_maintainer_file && !$in_commit_log && + if (!$reported_maintainer_file && !$in_commit_log && $realfile !~ /\.(dts|dtsi)$/ && ($line =~ /^(?:new|deleted) file mode\s*\d+\s*$/ || $line =~ /^rename (?:from|to) [\w\/\.\-]+\s*$/ || ($line =~ /\{\s*([\w\/\.\-]*)\s*\=\>\s*([\w\/\.\-]*)\s*\}/ && --- base-commit: 37136bf5c3a6f6b686d74f41837a6406bec6b7bc change-id: 20250113-b4-dts-mainainers-check-fa069e9c63ee Best regards, -- Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
