Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add an entry for the input MT protocol | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:46:26 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 00:31 +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > Joe Perches wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 00:04 +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > >> This patch adds a maintainer for the input multitouch (MT) protocol, > >> such that get_maintainer.pl selects it whenever an MT event is present > >> in the patch. > >> +MULTITOUCH INPUT MT PROTOCOL > >> +M: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> > >> +L: linux-input@vger.kernel.org > >> +S: Maintained > >> +F: Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt > >> +K: ABS_MT > > That doesn't seem to match anything other than multitouch > > stuff, but it's probably best to specify the pattern as > > much as possible. > > If you didn't know, K: entries can be entered as perl regex, > > so maybe something like: > > K: \b(ABS|SYN)_MT_ > Thanks for the info. However, since every application using the MT protocol by > necessity uses at least one event called ABS_MT*, it should be fine as is, > shouldn't it?
Maybe. The leading \b and trailing _ are just attempts to avoid potential clashes with future stuff.
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