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

From: Borislav Petkov

Date: Sun Nov 01 2026 - 15:18:26 EST


On Sun, Nov 01, 2026 at 11:54:42AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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.

I leave it up to you.

As said, my only angle is having this documented as clearly as possible, even
with an example, so that people in the future do not stumble over this and
have to add debug prints to get_maintainer.pl code to figure out what exactly
happens.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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