Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | MAINTAINERS: Describe differences between F: and N: patterns | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:29:07 -0800 |
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There is a difference in how scripts/get_maintainer.pl treats F: and N: file pattern matches.
Describe those differences in the MAINTAINERS file.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> ---
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 21:21 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:55:30PM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote: > > [...] > > > +F: arch/arm/boot/dts/efm32* > > > +F: arch/arm/configs/efm32_defconfig > > > +F: arch/arm/include/debug/efm32.S > > > +F: arch/arm/mach-efm32/ > > > +F: drivers/clk/clk-efm32gg.c > > > +F: drivers/clocksource/time-efm32.c > > > +F: drivers/spi/spi-efm32.c > > > +F: drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c > > > +F: include/dt-bindings/clock/efm32-cmu.h > > > +F: include/linux/platform_data/efm32-* > > > > Maybe "N" keyword with "efm32" is better here? > ah, didn't know about that. Nice. > > So the changes since v1 are: > - use N: efm32 > - add acks from Greg and Mark > I assume it's ok to keep them for v2 assuming they mean them being OK with > me maintaining the efm32 stuff and not the way to express that in > MAINTAINERS.
MAINTAINERS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 1344816..ebdb523 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ Descriptions of section entries: N: Files and directories with regex patterns. N: [^a-z]tegra all files whose path contains the word tegra One pattern per line. Multiple N: lines acceptable. + scripts/get_maintainer.pl has different behavior for files that + match F: pattern and matches of N: patterns. By default, + get_maintainer will not look at git log history when an F: pattern + match occurs. When an N: match occurs, git log history is used + to also notify the people that have git commit signatures. X: Files and directories that are NOT maintained, same rules as F: Files exclusions are tested before file matches. Can be useful for excluding a specific subdirectory, for instance:
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