Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756109AbaJOCbN (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2014 22:31:13 -0400 Received: from mail-gw1-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.62]:43876 "EHLO mail-gw1-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755951AbaJOCbL (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2014 22:31:11 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.04,720,1406617200"; d="scan'208";a="48460682" Message-ID: <543DDC6D.8030701@broadcom.com> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:31:09 -0700 From: Scott Branden User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Perches CC: Andrew Morton , "David S. Miller" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Mauro Carvalho Chehab" , Antti Palosaari , Jingoo Han , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Subject: Re: get_maintainers.pl doesn't actually get the real MAINTAINERS? References: <543DD959.2060801@broadcom.com> <1413339973.7475.1.camel@perches.com> In-Reply-To: <1413339973.7475.1.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 14-10-14 07:26 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > 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 >> 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* Thanks for the explanation. So somebody should really do the following to maintain any files no matter where they are located? F: */*bcm2835* F: */*/*bcm2835* F: */*/*/*bcm2835* F: */*/*/*/*bcm2835* F: */*/*/*/*/*bcm2835* F: */*/*/*/*/*/*bcm2835* F: */*/*/*/*/*/*/*bcm2835* Or, can a recursive option be added in the script? > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/