From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757520Ab3CGA3K (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2013 19:29:10 -0500 Received: from avon.wwwdotorg.org ([70.85.31.133]:32986 "EHLO avon.wwwdotorg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754636Ab3CGA3J (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2013 19:29:09 -0500 From: Stephen Warren To: Andrew Morton Cc: Joe Perches , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marcin Slusarz , Lucas Stach , Borislav Petkov , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, Maarten Lankhorst , linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Warren Subject: [PATCH V2 1/3] get_maintainer: create filename-only regex match type Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 17:28:59 -0700 Message-Id: <1362616141-13947-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.4 X-NVConfidentiality: public Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Warren Create a new N: entry type in MAINTAINERS which performs a regex match against filenames; either those extracted from patch +++ or --- lines, or those specified on the command-line using the -f option. This provides the same benefits as using a K: regex option to match a set of filenames (see commit eb90d08 "get_maintainer: allow keywords to match filenames"), but without the disadvantage that "random" file content, such as comments, will ever match the regex. Suggested-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren --- v2: Corrected typo in MAINTAINERS documentation --- MAINTAINERS | 3 +++ scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 9561658..c9b1e37 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ Descriptions of section entries: F: drivers/net/* all files in drivers/net, but not below F: */net/* all files in "any top level directory"/net One pattern per line. Multiple F: lines acceptable. + N: Files and directories with regex patterns. + N: [^a-z]tegra all files whose patch contains the word tegra + One pattern per line. Multiple N: lines acceptable. 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: diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl index ce4cc83..27dc5cb 100755 --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl @@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ sub get_maintainers { $hash{$tvi} = $value_pd; } } - } elsif ($type eq 'K') { + } elsif ($type eq 'K' || $type eq 'N') { if ($file =~ m/$value/x) { $hash{$tvi} = 0; } -- 1.7.10.4