From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753874Ab3LUE32 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Dec 2013 23:29:28 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0175.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.175]:52891 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753107Ab3LUE31 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Dec 2013 23:29:27 -0500 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::::::::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:800:960:973:982:988:989:1260:1261:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1542:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2198:2199:2393:2553:2559:2562:2693:2734:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3354:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3872:3874:4250:4321:5007:7652:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11914:12043:12517:12519:12555:1274 X-HE-Tag: brake27_17da69aeda14d X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 3498 Message-ID: <1387600147.2353.67.camel@joe-AO722> Subject: MAINTAINERS: Describe differences between F: and N: patterns From: Joe Perches To: Uwe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= , Andrew Morton Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arm@kernel.org, Mike Turquette , Daniel Lezcano , Thomas Gleixner , Mark Brown , Grant Likely , Rob Herring , Greg Kroah-Hartman , kernel@pengutronix.de Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:29:07 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1387570919-13627-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> References: <1387569330.616105313@f421.i.mail.ru> <1387570919-13627-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.4-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --- On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 21:21 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > Acked-by: Mark Brown > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König > 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: