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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Updated TTY MAINTAINERS info
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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