linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 3/3] get_maintainer: prevent keywords from matching filenames

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Date:	Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:40:10 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>,
	Lucas Stach <dev@...xeye.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...onical.com>,
	linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 3/3] get_maintainer: prevent keywords from matching
 filenames

On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 17:34 -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 03/06/2013 05:30 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 17:29 -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
> >>
> >> This reverts most of eb90d08 "get_maintainer: allow keywords to match
> >> filenames"; all except the parts that are required to implement the new
> >> N: entry type.
> > 
> > Just combine patches 1 and 3 into a single patch.
> 
> That would break bisectability; using MAINTAINERS after applying a
> squashed 1+3 but without patch 2 applied would not operate as desired.

<smile>

Which is why I showed the whole thing in a single patch.
No worries if it's simply to increase the patch count...

cheers, Joe

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