Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: exceptions to what I maintain

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 06/12/14 10:35, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 10:12 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
>>
>> Note that I don't maintain Documentation/ABI/,
>> Documentation/devicetree/, or the language translation files.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> 
> Hey Randy.
> 
> Perhaps it's better to use exclusion "X:" values
> so get_maintainer doesn't still include you.
> 
>> @@ -2885,7 +2885,7 @@ M:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
>>  L:	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
>>  T:	quilt http://www.infradead.org/~rdunlap/Doc/patches/
>>  S:	Maintained
>> -F:	Documentation/
>> +F:	Documentation/ (but not: ABI, devicetree, translations)
> 
> Maybe:
> 
> X:	Documentation/ABI/
> X:	Documentation/devicetree/
> X:	Documentation/[a-z][a-z]_[A-Z][A-Z]/
> 
> The last line matches:
> 
> Documentation/ja_JP/
> Documentation/ko_KR/
> Documentation/zh_CN/
> 
> and it's easy to add any other directory you don't
> want to cc'd on.

Thanks, I'll modify it to that syntax.
That should satisfy Josh's comment also.


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~Randy