From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] Updated TTY MAINTAINERS info Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 14:52:23 -0800 Message-ID: <20120109225223.GA11356@suse.de> References: <1326137964-10671-1-git-send-email-lucaskt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20120109200751.GA8337@suse.de> <4F0B4F66.8000302@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F0B4F66.8000302@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Lucas Kannebley Tavares Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 06:34:46PM -0200, Lucas Kannebley Tavares wrote: > On 01/09/2012 06:07 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 05:39:24PM -0200, Lucas Kannebley Tavares wrote: > >>Greg Kroah-Hartman is the current TTY maintainer, however he wouldn't appear > >>listed as such upon running get_maintainers.pl for drivers under > >>drivers/tty/serial. > >> > >>Signed-off-by: Lucas Kannebley Tavares > >>--- > >> MAINTAINERS | 2 +- > >> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > >> > >>diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > >>index cc6a466..6a856df 100644 > >>--- a/MAINTAINERS > >>+++ b/MAINTAINERS > >>@@ -6641,7 +6641,7 @@ TTY LAYER > >> M: Greg Kroah-Hartman > >> S: Maintained > >> T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6.git > >>-F: drivers/tty/* > >>+F: drivers/tty/ > > > >Isn't this just a bug in the get_maintainers.pl script? Why does this > >patch fix the problem? > > > >greg k-h > > > > To quote from MAINTAINERS > > > F: Files and directories with wildcard patterns. > > A trailing slash includes all files and subdirectory files. > > F: drivers/net/ all files in and below drivers/net > > F: drivers/net/* all files in drivers/net, but not below > > In this case I believe you are the maintainer for the entire tree, > or am I mistaken? If so, the documentation states that it shouldn't > have an asterisk. Ah, I missed that, you are correct. I'll queue this up for the next round of tty patches to go to Linus (after 3.3-rc1 is out.) thanks, greg k-h