Message-ID: <1413339973.7475.1.camel@perches.com>
Subject: Re: get_maintainers.pl doesn't actually get the real MAINTAINERS?
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>,
        Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>, Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        swarren@wwwdotorg.org
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:26:13 -0700
In-Reply-To: <543DD959.2060801@broadcom.com>
References: <543DD959.2060801@broadcom.com>
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On Tue, 2014-10-14 at 19:18 -0700, Scott Branden wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I try running scripts/get_maintainers.pl but it doesn't seem to get the 
> real maintainers properly.  Please note this is run against the current 
> MAINTAINERS file.
> 
> One Example:  I would expect drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-bcm2835.c to be 
> maintained by Stephen Warren based on drivers/*/*bcm2835* below.

get_maintainers doesn't use * as a depth wildcard

*/ matches a single top level directory level
*/*/ matches one level below the top directory level.

>   But 
> the get_maintainers.pl script does not seem to process the information 
> in such a way.  So what needs to be corrected - the script or the syntax 
> used in the MAINTAINERS file?
> 
> BROADCOM BCM2835 ARM ARCHICTURE
> M:	Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
> L:	linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
> T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/swarren/linux-rpi.git
> S:	Maintained
> F:	arch/arm/mach-bcm/board_bcm2835.c
> F:	arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm2835*
> F:	arch/arm/configs/bcm2835_defconfig
> F:	drivers/*/*bcm2835*

F:	drivers/*/*/*bmc2835*


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