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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0910121211250.12171@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:	Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:14:05 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS: Document new "K:" entry type

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Joe Perches wrote:

> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index e1da925..4407de2 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -65,43 +65,51 @@ trivial patch so apply some common sense.
>  
>  8.	Happy hacking.
>  
> -		-----------------------------------
> -
> -Maintainers List (try to look for most precise areas first)
> +Descriptions of section entries:
[ ... ]
> +	K: Keyword perl extended regex pattern to match content in a
> +	   patch or file.  For instance:
> +	   K: of_get_profile
> +	      matches patches or files 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
> +	   One regex pattern per line.  Multiple K: lines acceptable.

What expressions do you expect people will be using here? (the example 
with printk() doesn't really demonstrate usefulness of this).

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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