Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 8/8] MAINTAINERS: perf: Add pattern that matches ppc perf to the perf entry.

From: Michal Suchánek <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:42:04 +0100

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 06:31:57PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 07:42:03AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2020-03-20 at 14:42 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 12:23:38PM +0100, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 12:33:50PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 11:20:19AM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > > > > > While at it also simplify the existing perf patterns.
> > > > > And still missed fixes from parse-maintainers.pl.
> > > > 
> > > > Oh, that script UX is truly ingenious.
> > > 
> > > You have at least two options, their combinations, etc:
> > >  - complain to the author :-)
> > >  - send a patch :-)
> > 
> > Recently:
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email-masked]/
> 
> But why?
> 
> Shouldn't we rather run MAINTAINERS clean up once and require people to use
> parse-maintainers.pl for good?

That cleanup did not happen yet, and I am not volunteering for one.
The difference between MAINTAINERS and MAINTAINERS.new is:

 MAINTAINERS | 5510 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
 1 file changed, 2755 insertions(+), 2755 deletions(-)

Thanks

Michal