Re: [PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS: Document new "K:" entry type

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Mon Oct 12 2009 - 06:15:34 EST


On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Joe Perches wrote:

> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index e1da925..4407de2 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -65,43 +65,51 @@ trivial patch so apply some common sense.
>
> 8. Happy hacking.
>
> - -----------------------------------
> -
> -Maintainers List (try to look for most precise areas first)
> +Descriptions of section entries:
[ ... ]
> + K: Keyword perl extended regex pattern to match content in a
> + patch or file. For instance:
> + K: of_get_profile
> + matches patches or files that contain "of_get_profile"
> + K: \b(printk|pr_(info|err))\b
> + matches patches or files that contain one or more of the words
> + printk, pr_info or pr_err
> + One regex pattern per line. Multiple K: lines acceptable.

What expressions do you expect people will be using here? (the example
with printk() doesn't really demonstrate usefulness of this).

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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