linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS: Document new "K:" entry type

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Message-Id: <1255347331.1839.41.camel@Joe-Laptop.home>
Date:	Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:35:31 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
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 Mon, 2009-10-12 at 12:14 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Joe Perches wrote:
> > +	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
> What expressions do you expect people will be using here?

Keywords or keyword initiators specific to a facility
that's used kernel-wide.

> (the example with printk() doesn't really demonstrate usefulness of this).

A useful, simple example would be cheerfully substituted.
maybe:
	K: \b(AUDIT|audit)_

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