From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucas Kannebley Tavares Subject: Re: [PATCH] Updated TTY MAINTAINERS info Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:34:46 -0200 Message-ID: <4F0B4F66.8000302@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1326137964-10671-1-git-send-email-lucaskt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20120109200751.GA8337@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e24smtp02.br.ibm.com ([32.104.18.86]:54881 "EHLO e24smtp02.br.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933034Ab2AIUex (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2012 15:34:53 -0500 Received: from /spool/local by e24smtp02.br.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:34:51 -0200 In-Reply-To: <20120109200751.GA8337@suse.de> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 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. Lucas