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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Updated TTY MAINTAINERS info
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 06:34:46PM -0200, Lucas Kannebley Tavares wrote:
> On 01/09/2012 06:07 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 05:39:24PM -0200, Lucas Kannebley Tavares wrote:
> >>Greg Kroah-Hartman is the current TTY maintainer, however he wouldn't appear
> >>listed as such upon running get_maintainers.pl for drivers under
> >>drivers/tty/serial.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Lucas Kannebley Tavares<lucaskt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >>---
> >> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> >> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >>
> >>diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> >>index cc6a466..6a856df 100644
> >>--- a/MAINTAINERS
> >>+++ b/MAINTAINERS
> >>@@ -6641,7 +6641,7 @@ TTY LAYER
> >> M: Greg Kroah-Hartman<gregkh@suse.de>
> >> S: Maintained
> >> T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6.git
> >>-F: drivers/tty/*
> >>+F: drivers/tty/
> >
> >Isn't this just a bug in the get_maintainers.pl script? Why does this
> >patch fix the problem?
> >
> >greg k-h
> >
>
> To quote from MAINTAINERS
>
> > F: Files and directories with wildcard patterns.
> > A trailing slash includes all files and subdirectory files.
> > F: drivers/net/ all files in and below drivers/net
> > F: drivers/net/* all files in drivers/net, but not below
>
> In this case I believe you are the maintainer for the entire tree,
> or am I mistaken? If so, the documentation states that it shouldn't
> have an asterisk.

Ah, I missed that, you are correct. I'll queue this up for the next
round of tty patches to go to Linus (after 3.3-rc1 is out.)

thanks,

greg k-h


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