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Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Add support to match arbitrary text
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 00:32 +0100, L. Alberto Giménez wrote:
> Extend the usage of the K section in the MAINTAINERS file to support matching
> regular expressions with the content that precedes the patch (delimited by three
> dashes "---").
> +		} elsif (not $in_patch and m/^---/) {
> +			# enter "patch area": keywords matched only on changed lines
> +			$in_patch = 1;

Not all patches need or have ---

This would be better as "^---$"