On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 16:40 -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Allow K: entries in MAINTAINERS to match directly against filenames;
> either those extracted from patch +++ or --- lines, or those specified
> on the command-line using the -f option.
[]
> I don't think setting exact_pattern_match_hash would be appropriate here;
> at least for intended Tegra use case, this feature is to ensure that all
> Tegra-related driver changes get Cc'd to the Tegra mailing list. Setting
> exact_pattern_match_hash would prevent git history parsing for e.g. S-o-b
> tags, which still seems like it would be useful. Hence, this flag isn't
> set.
And I don't think that's necessary because for filenames,
you could add the appropriate control to the MAINTAINERS
"K: ^pattern$"
> The value in $hash{$tvi} doesn't seem relevant, so I just assign 0.
0 is good.
It would be relevant if --pattern-depth was set.
> Joe, I'm not sure if you care where this gets merged; could it go through
> arm-soc together with patch 2/2? A quick look at git history of the
> script in linux-next indicates there won't be conflicts doing that.
I don't care how it gets merged.
Andrew Morton typically picks these up but
if you want to get it merged separately,
I don't see a problem.
trivial comment below:
> diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
[]
> @@ -611,6 +611,10 @@ sub get_maintainers {
> $hash{$tvi} = $value_pd;
> }
> }
> + } elsif ($type eq "K") {
This should probably be 'K' to match the other
'F' use above it.
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