From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965429AbbJ2RP6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:15:58 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0119.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.119]:35566 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965264AbbJ2RP4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:15:56 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:973:982:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1540:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2559:2562:2693:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3352:3622:3865:3866:3867:3870:3871:3872:3874:4321:5007:6119:6261:7903:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11914:12517:12519:12740:13069:13311:13357:14096:14097:21080:30045:30054:30070:30091,0,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:2,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: wire05_8adf7cea3b544 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1755 Message-ID: <1446138953.2757.176.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: i2c: mark also subdirectories as maintained From: Joe Perches To: Wolfram Sang Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Jones Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:15:53 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20151029155258.GB22218@katana> References: <1446103548-2217-1-git-send-email-wsa@the-dreams.de> <1446127903.2757.163.camel@perches.com> <20151029155258.GB22218@katana> 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 16:52 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > + 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. > > I'd be fine with the change. The patch description should probably state > why fixing the tool is not worth it. Not worth it vs inappropriate (arch/arm, etc...) Maybe the wording around "quirk" could be improved or expanded. Any suggestions?