Re: MAINTAINERS still leaves more files uncovered than I'd like

[Thomas Huth]

On 02/10/2023 08.18, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Markus,
>
> On 29/9/23 13:43, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> > Back in 2014 (time flies), I posted
> >
> >      Subject: MAINTAINERS leaves too many files uncovered
> >      Message-ID: <87mw8rumhb.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org>
> >      https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/87mw8rumhb.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org/
> >
> > I updated my findings in 2015, 2016 (at commit e00da552a0d), and 2018
> > (at v3.1.0-rc2).  This is another update, at commit 36e9aab3c56.
> >
> > Unsurprisingly, the number of files in the tree
> >
> >      $ git-ls-files | wc -l
> >
> > grows over time:
> >
> >      year  2014  2015  2016  2018  2023
> >      #     3746  4387  4921  6461  9788
> >
> > Looks exponential to me, doubling every seven years or so.
> >
> > The number of .c files has grown more slowly:
> >
> >      year  2014  2015  2016  2018  2023
> >      #     1836  1945  2132  2633  3588
> >
> > The number of .c files not covered by MAINTAINERS
>
> [...]
>
> > hw/sensor/dps310.c
> > hw/sensor/emc141x.c
> > hw/sensor/lsm303dlhc_mag.c
> > hw/sensor/max31785.c
> > hw/sensor/meson.build
> > hw/sensor/tmp105.c
> > hw/sensor/tmp421.c
>
> I sent a patch for these but the community didn't
> seem very interested back then:
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230220110235.24472-1-philmd@linaro.org/

As long as nobody complains, I'd say just go for it and put it in your next 
pull request :-)

 Thomas