[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 21/40] maintainers: claim ownership of DPAA Mempool driver

[Thomas Monjalon]

22/09/2017 09:37, Shreyansh Jain:
> On Friday 22 September 2017 12:23 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 22/09/2017 08:47, Shreyansh Jain:
> >> On Friday 22 September 2017 03:26 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >>> 23/08/2017 16:11, Shreyansh Jain:
> >>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> >>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> >>>> @@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ NXP dpaa
> >>>>    M: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>
> >>>>    M: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain at nxp.com>
> >>>>    F: drivers/bus/dpaa/
> >>>> +F: drivers/mempool/dpaa/
> >>>>    F: doc/guides/nics/dpaa.rst
> >>>>    F: doc/guides/nics/features/dpaa.ini
> >>>
> >>> This kind of patch can be squashed in the first patch introducing
> >>> this new directory.
> >>
> >> Then the patch script (devtools/check-git-log.sh) reports error - I
> >> think. That is the primary reason I split them across multiple patches.
> >> You sure that doesn't matter?
> > 
> > Which error?
> > 
> > To be clear I suggest to squash with patch 19 where
> > drivers/mempool/dpaa/Makefile is introduced.
> 
> Yes, I understand that.
> It would report error that the headline is wrong because I am hitting 
> different directories - "MAINTAINERS" and "drivers/mempool/*" with the 
> same patch having headline "mempool/*".

The test you are talking about has this comment:
	# check headline prefix when touching only drivers, e.g. net/<driver name>
If you hit a warning, there is a bug.