Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add brcmstb regex

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

(cc'ing Andrew Morton)

On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 16:02 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 06:09:05PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> > This could probably consolidate a few file listings. And it satisfies
> > the spirit of the highly annoying [1] checkpatch warning for every new
> > file, though it sadly won't quash it.
> > 
> > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/17/24
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
> 
> Ping? Is this a good entry?

As you're a MAINTAINER of this section, if you want it to
be a good entry, it's a good entry.

You should get someone (Andrew?) to apply it.

Be aware that N: matches aren't as "owned" as F: matches.

Note from MAINTAINERS:
	N: Files and directories with regex patterns.
	   One pattern per line.  Multiple N: lines acceptable.
	   scripts/get_maintainer.pl has different behavior for files that
	   match F: pattern and matches of N: patterns.  By default,
	   get_maintainer will not look at git log history when an F: pattern
	   match occurs.  When an N: match occurs, git log history is used
	   to also notify the people that have git commit signatures.

> One problem is that there may be 'brcmstb' drivers for MIPS as well as
> ARM. But on that train of thought: there are several drivers which are
> already somewhat inaccurately-listed. The following are listed under
> either the BCM7XXX ARM subarchitecture or BMIPS MIPS subarchitecture,
> though they are actually used on both:
> 
>  drivers/bus/brcmstb_gisb.c
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-brcmstb-l2.c
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7120-l2.c
> 
> Brian
> 
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 0e1abe8cc684..52a1cf7cd18a 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -2179,6 +2179,7 @@ S:	Maintained
> >  F:	arch/arm/mach-bcm/*brcmstb*
> >  F:	arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm7*.dts*
> >  F:	drivers/bus/brcmstb_gisb.c
> > +N:	brcmstb
> >  
> >  BROADCOM BMIPS MIPS ARCHITECTURE
> >  M:	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
> > -- 
> > 1.9.1
> >