linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: extend file entry in KHO to include subdirectories

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Message-ID: <aQuLvVjH12g7L-fY@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 19:39:09 +0200
From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
To: Lukas Bulwahn <lbulwahn@...hat.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@...zon.com>, Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@...gle.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: extend file entry in KHO to include
 subdirectories

On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 03:32:38PM +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> From: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...hat.com>
> 
> Commit 3498209ff64e ("Documentation: add documentation for KHO") adds the
> file entry for 'Documentation/core-api/kho/*'. The asterisk in the end
> means that all files in kho are included, but not files in its
> subdirectories below.
> Hence, the files under Documentation/core-api/kho/bindings/ are not
> considered part of KHO, and get_maintainers.pl does not necessarily add the
> KHO maintainers to the recipients of patches to those files. Probably, this
> is not intended, though, and it was simply an oversight of the detailed
> semantics of such file entries.
> 
> Make the file entry to include the subdirectories of
> Documentation/core-api/kho/.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@...nel.org>

> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 06ff926c5331..499b52d7793f 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -13836,7 +13836,7 @@ L:	kexec@...ts.infradead.org
>  L:	linux-mm@...ck.org
>  S:	Maintained
>  F:	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/kho.rst
> -F:	Documentation/core-api/kho/*
> +F:	Documentation/core-api/kho/
>  F:	include/linux/kexec_handover.h
>  F:	kernel/kexec_handover.c
>  F:	tools/testing/selftests/kho/
> -- 
> 2.51.1
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.