Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > On 12 March 2018 at 13:18, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> 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 <j...@perches.com>. >> >> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> >> --- > > Unfortunately the patch doesn't magically cause maintainers > to appear for the new files :-)
Fortunately, the patch can get new files non-magically rejected unless a maintainers appears :)