linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: i2c: mark also subdirectories as maintained

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 29 Oct 2015 07:11:43 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: i2c: mark also subdirectories as maintained

On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 08:25 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Otherwise get_maintainer.pl will fall back to git history and CC
> more people than needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
> Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 2f23aab10398bb..c3f01dc36b26b4 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -5090,6 +5090,7 @@ S:	Maintained
>  F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/
>  F:	Documentation/i2c/
>  F:	drivers/i2c/
> +F:	drivers/i2c/*/
>  F:	include/linux/i2c.h
>  F:	include/linux/i2c-*.h
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/i2c.h

Maybe something like this too:

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index a2d50fe..ff0ca88 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -93,6 +93,14 @@ Descriptions of section entries:
 	   F:	drivers/net/*	all files in drivers/net, but not below
 	   F:	*/net/*		all files in "any top level directory"/net
 	   One pattern per line.  Multiple F: lines acceptable.
+	   The scripts/get_maintainer.pl tool has a quirk about subdirectories.
+	   If the file pattern is for a directory, then any subdirectories of
+	   the parent directory should also be specified.  For instance:
+		F:	drivers/i2c/
+		F:	drivers/i2c/*/
+	   Otherwise, the scripts/get_maintainer.pl tool by default will use
+	   git history to add additional people that have "Signed-off-by:"
+	   style signatures on commits to files in those subdirectories.
 	N: Files and directories with regex patterns.
 	   N:	[^a-z]tegra	all files whose path contains the word tegra
 	   One pattern per line.  Multiple N: lines acceptable.


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/