linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Updated TTY MAINTAINERS info

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Date:	Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:34:46 -0200
From:	Lucas Kannebley Tavares <lucaskt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
CC:	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Updated TTY MAINTAINERS info

On 01/09/2012 06:07 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 05:39:24PM -0200, Lucas Kannebley Tavares wrote:
>> Greg Kroah-Hartman is the current TTY maintainer, however he wouldn't appear
>> listed as such upon running get_maintainers.pl for drivers under
>> drivers/tty/serial.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lucas Kannebley Tavares<lucaskt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>   MAINTAINERS |    2 +-
>>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index cc6a466..6a856df 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -6641,7 +6641,7 @@ TTY LAYER
>>   M:	Greg Kroah-Hartman<gregkh@...e.de>
>>   S:	Maintained
>>   T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6.git
>> -F:	drivers/tty/*
>> +F:	drivers/tty/
>
> Isn't this just a bug in the get_maintainers.pl script?  Why does this
> patch fix the problem?
>
> greg k-h
>

To quote from MAINTAINERS

 >	F: Files and directories with wildcard patterns.
 >	   A trailing slash includes all files and subdirectory files.
 >	   F:	drivers/net/	all files in and below drivers/net
 >	   F:	drivers/net/*	all files in drivers/net, but not below

In this case I believe you are the maintainer for the entire tree, or am 
I mistaken? If so, the documentation states that it shouldn't have an 
asterisk.

Lucas

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