From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933475Ab3BLSW0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:22:26 -0500 Received: from perches-mx.perches.com ([206.117.179.246]:38998 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933470Ab3BLSWZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:22:25 -0500 Message-ID: <1360693342.5128.39.camel@joe-AO722> Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 1/2] get_maintainer: allow keywords to match filenames From: Joe Perches To: Stephen Warren Cc: arm@kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Julian Andres Klode , Marc Dietrich , Stephen Warren Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:22:22 -0800 In-Reply-To: <511A8743.9010408@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1360629574-23989-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> <1360649875.5128.18.camel@joe-AO722> <511A8743.9010408@wwwdotorg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.2-0ubuntu0.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 11:17 -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 02/11/2013 11:17 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > If the -f pattern is a single file, > > get_maintainer reads that file content and then > > matches any K: patterns. > > > > When the -f pattern is a directory, it doesn't. > > Yes, I guess that's true; I had convinced myself that "file" wasn't > accurate since "-f directory/" didn't scan the files within that > directory tree, but as you say "-f file" does scan the file content. > > BTW, given I'm adding "filename" to the list, I intend to change the > existing "file" to "file content" to be clear. Are you OK with that? Sure.