From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757220AbbJ2OLs (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:11:48 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0033.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.33]:59115 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756914AbbJ2OLr (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:11:47 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:800:960:973:982:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2559:2562:2693:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3353:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3874:4321:5007:6261:7903:10004:10400:10848:11232:11657:11658:11914:12043:12295:12296:12517:12519:12555:12740:13069:13311:13357:21080,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:21,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: print22_83b18f5bf7417 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2606 Message-ID: <1446127903.2757.163.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: i2c: mark also subdirectories as maintained From: Joe Perches To: Wolfram Sang , Andrew Morton Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Jones Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 07:11:43 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1446103548-2217-1-git-send-email-wsa@the-dreams.de> References: <1446103548-2217-1-git-send-email-wsa@the-dreams.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.11-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 08:25 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > Otherwise get_maintainer.pl will fall back to git history and CC > more people than needed. > > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang > Acked-by: Lee Jones > --- > MAINTAINERS | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index 2f23aab10398bb..c3f01dc36b26b4 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -5090,6 +5090,7 @@ S: Maintained > F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/ > F: Documentation/i2c/ > F: drivers/i2c/ > +F: drivers/i2c/*/ > F: include/linux/i2c.h > F: include/linux/i2c-*.h > F: include/uapi/linux/i2c.h Maybe something like this too: diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index a2d50fe..ff0ca88 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -93,6 +93,14 @@ Descriptions of section entries: F: drivers/net/* all files in drivers/net, but not below F: */net/* all files in "any top level directory"/net One pattern per line. Multiple F: lines acceptable. + The scripts/get_maintainer.pl tool has a quirk about subdirectories. + If the file pattern is for a directory, then any subdirectories of + the parent directory should also be specified. For instance: + F: drivers/i2c/ + F: drivers/i2c/*/ + Otherwise, the scripts/get_maintainer.pl tool by default will use + git history to add additional people that have "Signed-off-by:" + style signatures on commits to files in those subdirectories. N: Files and directories with regex patterns. N: [^a-z]tegra all files whose path contains the word tegra One pattern per line. Multiple N: lines acceptable.