On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:16:20 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2020-11-19 at 21:50 +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 10:02:10 -0800 > > Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:26:40 +0100 Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: > > > > Getting too many false positive matches with current use > > > > of the content regex K: and file regex N: patterns. > > > > > > > > This patch drops file match N: and makes K: more restricted. > > > > Some more normal F: file wildcards are added. > > > > > > > > Notice that AF_XDP forgot to some F: files that is also > > > > updated in this patch. > > > > > > > > Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Ah! Sorry, I missed that you sent this before replying to Joe. > > > > > > Would you mind respining with his regex? > > > > Sure, I just send it... with your adjusted '(\b|_)xdp(\b|_)' regex, as > > it seems to do the same thing (and it works with egrep). > > The regexes in MAINTAINERS are perl not egrep and using (\b|_) > creates unnecessary capture groups. > > It _really_ should be (?:\b|_)xdp(?:\b|_) Okay, I will send a V3 patch. I was trying to write a perl oneliner to tests this, but I realized that git-grep supports this directly via --perl-regexp. $ time git grep --files-with-matches --perl-regexp '(\b|_)xdp(\b|_)' | wc -l 297 real 0m2,225s user 0m0,832s sys 0m2,762s $ time git grep --files-with-matches --perl-regexp '(?:\b|_)xdp(?:\b|_)' | wc -l 297 real 0m2,261s user 0m0,788s sys 0m2,714s -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer