linux-kernel - BPF MAINTAINERS entry "K: bpf" casts too wide a net

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Message-ID: <51685e024c86a691aaf7c94ad74f04971e736d3e.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Fri, 20 Aug 2021 10:58:34 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     bpf@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: BPF MAINTAINERS entry "K: bpf" casts too wide a net

The MAINTAINERS entry for BPF (Safe dynamic programs and tools)
includes K: bpf

This entry seems to match far too many files in the kernel sources.

$ git grep --name-only 'bpf' | wc -l
1398

Likely this entry should be removed or improved to ignore unnecessary
matches within files like scripts/checkpatch.pl

Perhaps instead this could be something like:

K:	\bbpf_|_bpf\b