On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 10:52 -0700, Jeff Merkey wrote: > So while putting together a patch series that adds some include files > in the arch/ I ran across the checkpatch WARNING that says MAINTAINERS > needs updating for new files with create mode. > Is the best way to do this to submit MAINTAINERS as a separate patch > or in its own patch with the series, or can I just send the patch > series to the current MAINTAINERS of those arches and skip this add > maintainers and ignore the checkpatch WARNING for this.
You can ignore it. The checkpatch message is just a prompt. It asks "does MAINTAINERS need updating"? The checkpatch message is just asking to consider whether or not MAINTAINERS needs updating. MAINTAINERS may not need updating at all. > From what I have seen, its not a good idea to ignore anything > checkpatch reports. It's always better to ignore mechanized messages from brainless scripts when you know what you're doing.
