Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:34:46 -0200 | From | Lucas Kannebley Tavares <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Updated TTY MAINTAINERS info |
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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.
Lucas
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