On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 21:49 +0530, Amit Kucheria wrote: > Several drivers didn't have a specific maintainer (other than the > subsystem maintainer). Switch to using the 'qcom' and 'msm' regex > patterns to capture all of them and add exceptions to the couple of > drivers that contain 'msm' but are not related to qcom hardware. > > Thanks to Marc for the idea to use the N regex. [] > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS [] > @@ -1929,20 +1929,14 @@ M: Andy Gross <andy.gross@xxxxxxxxxx> > M: David Brown <david.brown@xxxxxxxxxx> > L: linux-arm-msm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > S: Maintained > -F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/ > -F: arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom-*.dts > -F: arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom-*.dtsi > -F: arch/arm/mach-qcom/ > -F: arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/* > +N: qcom > +N: msm It is generally better to use a comprehensive list of F: patterns over N: patterns as N: patterns are not used as properly maintained entries for files matched by the get_maintainer.pl script. git history is used by default for the N: entries and that can cause whitespace style commit authors to be cc'd on various changes to matched files. Also msm is a pretty common filename pattern and the X: exclusions for various matching but not associated files might need to be added to quite often. >From MAINTAINERS: N: Files and directories with regex patterns. N: [^a-z]tegra all files whose path contains the word tegra One pattern per line. Multiple N: lines acceptable. scripts/get_maintainer.pl has different behavior for files that match F: pattern and matches of N: patterns. By default, get_maintainer will not look at git log history when an F: pattern match occurs. When an N: match occurs, git log history is used to also notify the people that have git commit signatures.
