linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4: fib_trie: Avoid cryptic ternary expressions

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Message-ID: <6bb0ac7f70a12a4bb9cb6238b4e50e23674bde43.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 19 Jun 2019 11:10:46 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@...gle.com>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4: fib_trie: Avoid cryptic ternary expressions

On Wed, 2019-06-19 at 10:41 -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 2:36 AM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 16:23 -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > As a side note, I'm going to try to see if MAINTAINERS and
> > > scripts/get_maintainers.pl supports regexes on the commit messages in
> > > order to cc our mailing list
> > 
> > Neither.  Why should either?
> 
> Looks like `K:` is exactly what I'm looking for.

Using K: for commit message content isn't the intended
use, but if it works for you, fine by me.

> Joe, how does:
> https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/commit/a0a64b8d65c4e7e033f49e48cc610d6e4002927e
> look?

You might consider using

K:	\b(?i:clang|llvm)\b

to get case insensitive matches.

> Is there a maintainer for MAINTAINERS or do I just send the
> patch to Linus?

Generally MAINTAINER patches go via Andrew Morton or
indirectly along with other changes via a pull request
to Linus.