Commit eb90d085 authored Feb 27, 2013 by Stephen Warren Committed by Linus Torvalds Feb 27, 2013

get_maintainer: allow keywords to match filenames



Allow K: entries in MAINTAINERS to match directly against filenames;
either those extracted from patch +++ or --- lines, or those specified
on the command-line using the -f option.

This potentially allows fewer lines in a MAINTAINERS entry, if all the
relevant files are scattered throughout the whole kernel tree, yet
contain some common keyword.  An example would be using an ARM SoC name
as the keyword to catch all related drivers.

I don't think setting exact_pattern_match_hash would be appropriate
here; at least for intended Tegra use case, this feature is to ensure
that all Tegra-related driver changes get Cc'd to the Tegra mailing
list.  Setting exact_pattern_match_hash would prevent git history
parsing for e.g.  S-o-b tags, which still seems like it would be useful.
Hence, this flag isn't set.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 7ff67640

MAINTAINERS

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		@@ -97,12 +97,13 @@ Descriptions of section entries:
		X: net/ipv6/
		matches all files in and below net excluding net/ipv6/
		K: Keyword perl extended regex pattern to match content in a
		patch or file. For instance:
		patch or file, or an affected filename. For instance:
		K: of_get_profile
		matches patches or files that contain "of_get_profile"
		matches patch or file content, or filenames, that contain
		"of_get_profile"
		K: \b(printk\|pr_(info\|err))\b
		matches patches or files that contain one or more of the words
		printk, pr_info or pr_err
		matches patch or file content, or filenames, that contain one or
		more of the words printk, pr_info or pr_err
		One regex pattern per line. Multiple K: lines acceptable.

		Note: For the hard of thinking, this list is meant to remain in alphabetical

scripts/get_maintainer.pl

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		@@ -611,6 +611,10 @@ sub get_maintainers {
		$hash{$tvi} = $value_pd;
		}
		}
		} elsif ($type eq 'K') {
		if ($file =~ m/$value/x) {
		$hash{$tvi} = 0;
		}
		}
		}
		}

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