Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] MAINTAINERS: update list of qcom drivers

[Kalle Valo]

Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Several drivers didn't have a specific maintainer (other than the
> subsystem maintainer). Switch to using the 'qcom' and 'msm' regex
> patterns to capture all of them and add exceptions to the couple of
> drivers that contain 'msm' but are not related to qcom hardware.
>
> Thanks to Marc for the idea to use the N regex.
>
> Signed-off-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 14 ++++----------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 3318f30903b2..c9376030f77a 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -1929,20 +1929,14 @@ M:	Andy Gross <andy.gross@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  M:	David Brown <david.brown@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  L:	linux-arm-msm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  S:	Maintained
> -F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/
> -F:	arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom-*.dts
> -F:	arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom-*.dtsi
> -F:	arch/arm/mach-qcom/
> -F:	arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/*
> +N:	qcom
> +N:	msm

IMHO this is pretty fragile in the long term. For example only due to
historical reasons qualcomm wireless drivers currently under ath
directory but who knows if at some point we switch using qcom (or
qualcomm) directory. Also the wireless drivers might easily have
filenames containing strings like "msm" or "qcom" (which I assume would
match with "N" rules above).

-- 
Kalle Valo