Re: [PATCH -v2] MAINTAINERS: Fix Intel TDX kernel file patterns

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2026-11-01 at 11:37 -0800, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2026 at 10:59:24AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Not completely no.
> 
> Well, whatever you do, this needs some documentation so that it is perfectly
> clear to people using patterns.
> 
> Something perhaps like this below. You probably can come up with a better
> formulation - my only angle is to make this as easier and as clear to users of
> the pattern stuff as possible.

Thanks.

> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
[]
> @@ -30,13 +30,16 @@ Descriptions of section entries and preferred order
>         See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst for details.
>  	T: *SCM* tree type and location.
>  	   Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit, topgit
> -	F: *Files* and directories wildcard patterns.
> +	F: *Files* and directories wildcard patterns. The matching strategy
> +	mimicks git's pathspec shell glob patterns with some exceptions.
>  	   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
> -	   One pattern per line.  Multiple F: lines acceptable.
> +	   One pattern per line.  Multiple F: lines acceptable. One way to
> +	   verify the pattern is using something like
> +	   git ls-files -- <pattern>

Clarity is good.

Perhaps <pattern> needs to be '<pattern>' to avoid
command-line expansion.

I do think it was already generally understood though as
there was just one exception to the pattern match style
in the existing more than ten thousand ^[FX]: MAINTAINER
entries.