Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add an entry for the input MT protocol

[Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>]

Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 00:04 +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
>> This patch adds a maintainer for the input multitouch (MT) protocol,
>> such that get_maintainer.pl selects it whenever an MT event is present
>> in the patch.
> 
>> +MULTITOUCH INPUT MT PROTOCOL
>> +M:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
>> +L:	linux-input@vger.kernel.org
>> +S:	Maintained
>> +F:	Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt
>> +K:	ABS_MT
> 
> That doesn't seem to match anything other than multitouch
> stuff, but it's probably best to specify the pattern as
> much as possible.
> 
> If you didn't know, K: entries can be entered as perl regex,
> so maybe something like:
> 
> K:	\b(ABS|SYN)_MT_
> 

Thanks for the info. However, since every application using the MT protocol by
necessity uses at least one event called ABS_MT*, it should be fine as is,
shouldn't it?

Henrik