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