Re: [PATCH 3/3] MAINTAINERS: Remove references to not existing files

Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.u-boot-project.lists.u-boot,io.groups.u-boot-amlogic
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 8/24/26 12:11, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8/24/26 12:07 PM, Michal Simek wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 8/24/26 11:54, Quentin Schulz wrote:
>>> Hi Michal,
>>>
>>> On 8/24/26 9:18 AM, Michal Simek wrote:
>>>> A number of file (F:) entries across the MAINTAINERS files pointed to
>>>> files or directories which had been renamed or removed over time. Drop
>>>> these stale references so that every F: entry resolves to an existing
>>>> path.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
>>>> ---
>>> [...]
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rk3576/MAINTAINERS b/arch/arm/ mach- 
>>>> rockchip/rk3576/MAINTAINERS
>>>> index 79cf9e97f70b..62c3ce765e0d 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rk3576/MAINTAINERS
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rk3576/MAINTAINERS
>>>> @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ F:    configs/nanopi-m5-rk3576_defconfig
>>>>   NANOPI-R76S-RK3576
>>>>   M:    Jonas Karlman <[email protected]>
>>>>   S:    Maintained
>>>> -F:    arch/arm/dts/rk3576-nanopi-r76s*
>>>
>>> This is a leftover from v1 which had a file there, but we merged the v2. See 
>>> https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/? 
>>> url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.kernel.org%2Fu-boot%2F20260108143551.4017839-3- 
>>> jonas%40kwiboo.se%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cquentin.schulz%40cherry.de%7C20d22328c2c14b04e70608df01c79b5d%7C5e0e1b5221b54e7b83bb514ec460677e%7C0%7C0%7C639231628996802560%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2BGNHaQOa3XRWnaRD%2BMBZJDH3t54Q17ZQGynxdQr34e8%3D&reserved=0 and https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/[email protected]/
>>>
>>> For now we don't have U-Boot-specific additions to the upstream DTS for the 
>>> NanoPi R76S but we could in the future, so having a wildcard like that would 
>>> allow Jonas to be notified if one ever gets added. So it's not completely 
>>> useless. No strong opinion on still deleting it or not.
>>
>> File is there or not. If you add it in future you should extend that fragment 
>> and that's it.
>>
> 
> And Jonas won't be Cc'ed on it being added if someone forgets to update 
> MAINTAINERS (which honestly is very likely), that's my point. He maintains the 
> board but won't be notified if something directly related to the board he 
> maintains gets added.

you can use N: regex fragment for it.

Thanks,
Michal
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