[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: fix '*' wildcard formatting
From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed Mar 04 2026 - 17:43:14 EST
It seems that these wildcards confuse some parser (docutils, sphinx,
or maintainers_include.py), so quote them to avoid this issue.
Also insert a hyphen ('-') before "all files" in several places
to make the html output easier to read.
Fixes this htmldocs warning:
linux-next-20260304/MAINTAINERS:40: WARNING: Inline strong start-string without end-string. [docutils]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>
MAINTAINERS | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- linux-next-20260304.orig/MAINTAINERS
+++ linux-next-20260304/MAINTAINERS
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ Descriptions of section entries and pref
Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit, topgit
F: *Files* and directories wildcard patterns.
A trailing slash includes all files and subdirectory files.
- F: drivers/net/ all files in and below drivers/net
- F: drivers/net/* all files in drivers/net, but not below
- F: */net/* all files in "any top level directory"/net
- F: fs/**/*foo*.c all *foo*.c files in any subdirectory of fs
+ F: ``drivers/net/`` - all files in and below drivers/net
+ F: ``drivers/net/*`` - all files in drivers/net, but not below
+ F: ``*/net/*`` - all files in "any top level directory"/net
+ F: ``fs/**/*foo*.c`` - all *foo*.c files in any subdirectory of fs
One pattern per line. Multiple F: lines acceptable.
X: *Excluded* files and directories that are NOT maintained, same
rules as F:. Files exclusions are tested before file matches.
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Descriptions of section entries and pref
X: net/ipv6/
matches all files in and below net excluding net/ipv6/
N: Files and directories *Regex* patterns.
- N: [^a-z]tegra all files whose path contains tegra
+ N: [^a-z]tegra - all files whose path contains tegra
(not including files like integrator)
One pattern per line. Multiple N: lines acceptable.
scripts/get_maintainer.pl has different behavior for files that