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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

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/