From: Stephen Warren swarren@nvidia.com
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 joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren swarren@nvidia.com --- 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; }