Hi Markus,
On 5/21/2026 1:04 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Quite a few F: lines don't match any files. The quick & dirty check
>
> $ ls `sed -n 's/^F: *//p' MAINTAINERS ` >/dev/null
>
> finds about fifty.
>
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé recently posted a few fixes:
>
> MAINTAINERS: Fix docker/dockerfiles/debian-hexagon-cross.docker path
> MAINTAINERS: Cover debian-loongarch-cross.docker with LoongArch section
> MAINTAINERS: Cover debian-xtensa-cross.docker with Xtensa section
> MAINTAINERS: Cover debian-tricore-cross.docker with TriCore section
> MAINTAINERS: Cover python.docker with Python library section
> MAINTAINERS: Fix s390x storage key/attribute device paths
> MAINTAINERS: Fix tcg/s390x/ path
> MAINTAINERS: Correct scripts/coverity-model.c path
> MAINTAINERS: Fix hexagon-linux-user.mak path
>
> These are in
>
> Subject: [PATCH 0/7] docker: Remove LegacyKeyValueFormat warnings
> Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 12:22:15 +0200
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>
> Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] buildsys: Stop checking for ESA/390 host
> Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 19:12:36 +0200
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>
>
> Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Correct scripts/coverity-model.c path
> Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 19:19:26 +0200
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>
> Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Fix hexagon-linux-user.mak path
> Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 14:39:47 +0200
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>
> This series takes care of the remainder, except for one discussed
> below. It applies cleanly with and without Philippe's patches.
>
> The exception is the last line in
>
> Python scripts
> M: John Snow <[email protected]>
> M: Cleber Rosa <[email protected]>
> S: Odd Fixes
> F: scripts/*.py
> F: tests/*.py
>
> Both F: are actually wrong here: they match only in the scripts/ and
> tests/ not further down. Left for another day.
>
> Markus Armbruster (39):
> MAINTAINERS: Improve another "Overall" section headline
> MAINTAINERS: Delete trailing colons in section headlines
> MAINTAINERS: Drop stale F: from "Guest CPU cores (TCG)"
> MAINTAINERS: Drop stale F: in "RISC-V TCG CPUs"
> MAINTAINERS: Drop stale F: in "SPARC TCG CPUs"
> MAINTAINERS: Drop stale F: from "Overall KVM CPUs"
> MAINTAINERS: Drop stale F: from "Overall CPUs other accelerators"
> MAINTAINERS: Drop stale F: from "virtio"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: in "Apple Silicon HVF CPUs"
> MAINTAINERS: Drop bad F: in "X86 Xen CPUs"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: in "WebAssembly"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: in "Allwinner-a10"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: in "Raspberry Pi"
> MAINTAINERS: Drop bad F: from "Xilinx Zynq"
> MAINTAINERS: Drop stale F: from "New World (mac99)"
> MAINTAINERS: Drop stale F: from "sPAPR (pseries)"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: typo in "sam460ex"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: in "SiFive Machines"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: typo in "ACPI/HEST/GHES/ARM processor CPER"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: in "SSI"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: in "vhost"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: in "virtio-input"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix bad / stale F: in "virtio-rng"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: in "vhost-user-stubs"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: in "virtio-snd" and "virtio-gpu"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: typo in "pcf8574"
> MAINTAINERS: Drop stale F: from "Block I/O path"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: typo in "Dump"
> MAINTAINERS: Drop stale F: from "Human Monitor (HMP)"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: in "QDev"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: in "QMP"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: typo in "I3C"
> MAINTAINERS: Drop stale F: from "EDK2 Firmware"
> MAINTAINERS: Drop stale F: from "TCI TCG target"
> MAINTAINERS: Drop stale F: from "Linux io_uring"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: in "VFIO-USER"
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: in "Build and test automation"
> MAINTAINERS: Drop stale F: from "Sphinx documentation configuration
> ..."
> MAINTAINERS: Fix F: in "Rust build system integration"
>
> MAINTAINERS | 73 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
>
thanks for posting this.
In addition, see the patch attached to this email.
It integrates checking this directly at configure time, so we never run
into any missing entry again in the future.
I share this here not for a review, but simply to avoid a duplicated
effort, and make sure people know it will be sent after this series.
I don't believe in adding this in checkpatch, because it's not enforced
systematically unfortunately. Breaking the meson configuration is a good
way to make sure it's enforced by design.
With your series applied, the left entries are:
No matching files for /usr2/pbouvier/.work/qemu/MAINTAINERS +258:
configs/targets/hexagon-linux-user/default.mak
No matching files for /usr2/pbouvier/.work/qemu/MAINTAINERS +259:
docker/dockerfiles/debian-hexagon-cross.docker
No matching files for /usr2/pbouvier/.work/qemu/MAINTAINERS +2956:
hw/s390x/storage-keys.h
No matching files for /usr2/pbouvier/.work/qemu/MAINTAINERS +2965:
hw/s390x/storage-attributes.h
No matching files for /usr2/pbouvier/.work/qemu/MAINTAINERS +3241:
scripts/coverity-model.c
No matching files for /usr2/pbouvier/.work/qemu/MAINTAINERS +3468:
tests/*.py
No matching files for /usr2/pbouvier/.work/qemu/MAINTAINERS +4149:
tcg/s390/
Once your current series is pulled, I'll fix the remaining and send the
attached patch. Or feel free to do it directly if you like the idea :)
Regards,
Pierrick
From 6c9b49ac7ec06c0159d2b4ba9c9d1081e02ef765 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pierrick Bouvier <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 12:23:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] meson.build: check MAINTAINERS file is consistent with source
tree
We add a new script: scripts/check-maintainers-file.py, that will run at
configuration time (and not at build time), to not hurt build time.
This script runs in 0.2s on my dev VM, which has an old cpu.
We can expect things to be mostly in sync since adding or removing a
source or test file will trigger a configure step.
For the rest, like docs, tcg tests, or remaining files, GitLab CI will
build things from scratch and always run the configure step.
With this, it should be impossible by design to have an upstream
MAINTAINERS file with non existing file entries.
Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier <[email protected]>
---
meson.build | 5 +++
scripts/check-maintainers-file.py | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 58 insertions(+)
create mode 100755 scripts/check-maintainers-file.py
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index eeb096c1487..ddfb0b90ca6 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ add_test_setup('thorough',
meson.add_postconf_script(find_program('scripts/symlink-install-tree.py'))
+# check our MAINTAINERS file is consistent
+check_maintainers = find_program('scripts/check-maintainers-file.py')
+maintainers_file = files('MAINTAINERS')
+run_command([check_maintainers, maintainers_file], check: true, console: true)
+
####################
# Global variables #
####################
diff --git a/scripts/check-maintainers-file.py
b/scripts/check-maintainers-file.py
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..b001816a401
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/check-maintainers-file.py
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env python3
+
+# Check incorrect file entries in MAINTAINERS
+#
+# Author: Pierrick Bouvier <[email protected]>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+import argparse
+import glob
+import sys
+
+
+def check_one_entry(line) -> bool:
+ return True
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+ parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Check MAINTAINERS file")
+ parser.add_argument("maintainers", help="Path to MAINTAINERS file")
+ args = parser.parse_args()
+
+ found_file_entry = False
+ found_incorrect_entries = False
+ line_counter = 0
+
+ with open(args.maintainers) as file:
+ for entry in file:
+ line_counter += 1
+
+ if not entry.startswith("F:"):
+ continue
+ entry = entry[2:].strip()
+ found_file_entry = True
+
+ file_exists = len(glob.glob(entry, recursive=True)) > 0
+ if file_exists:
+ continue
+
+ found_incorrect_entries = True
+ print(
+ f"No matching files for {args.maintainers} +{line_counter}:
{entry}",
+ file=sys.stderr,
+ )
+
+ if not found_file_entry:
+ raise Exception("no file entry found - is MAINTAINERS path correct?")
+ if found_incorrect_entries:
+ raise Exception(f"incorrect entries found in {args.maintainers}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ main()
--
2.43.0
