linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Add support to match arbitrary text

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Message-ID: <1295913226.3101.60.camel@Joe-Laptop>
Date:	Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:53:46 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	"L. Alberto" Giménez <agimenez@...valve.es>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Add support to match arbitrary text

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 00:32 +0100, L. Alberto Giménez wrote:
> Extend the usage of the K section in the MAINTAINERS file to support matching
> regular expressions with the content that precedes the patch (delimited by three
> dashes "---").
> +		} elsif (not $in_patch and m/^---/) {
> +			# enter "patch area": keywords matched only on changed lines
> +			$in_patch = 1;

Not all patches need or have ---

This would be better as "^---$"


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