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From: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add an entry for the input MT protocol
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:31:37 +0200
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To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>

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