Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update phylink/sfp keyword matching

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-08-05 at 19:22 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 11:11:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 7:34 AM Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Is this something you're willing to merge directly please?
> > 
> > Done.
> > 
> > That said:
> > 
> > > -K:     phylink
> > > +K:     phylink\.h|struct\s+phylink|\.phylink|>phylink_|phylink_(autoneg|clear|connect|create|destroy|disconnect|ethtool|helper|mac|mii|of|set|start|stop|test|validate)
> > 
> > That's a very awkward pattern. I wonder if there could be better ways
> > to express this (ie "only apply this pattern to these files" kind of
> > thing)
> 
> Yes, it's extremely awkward - I spent much of the morning with perl
> testing it out on the drivers/ subtree.

And perhaps easier to read would be to use multiple K: lines.
(?: used to avoid unnecessary capture groups)

K:	phylink\.h|struct\s+phylink
K:	(?:\.|\-\>)phylink_
K:	phylink_(?:autoneg|clear|connect|create|destroy|disconnect|ethtool|helper|mac|mii|of|set|start|stop|test|validate)