Robin Krahl <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi again,
>
> I’m now preparing my patchset for bcm2835-audio. get_maintainer.pl
> returns:
>
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nokeywords --nogit --nogit-fallback
> drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/
> Stephen Warren <[email protected]> (maintainer:BROADCOM BCM2835 ARM
> ARCHITECTURE)
> Lee Jones <[email protected]> (maintainer:BROADCOM BCM2835 ARM
> ARCHITECTURE)
> Eric Anholt <[email protected]> (maintainer:BROADCOM BCM2835 ARM
> ARCHITECTURE)
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> (supporter:STAGING
> SUBSYSTEM)
> Florian Fainelli <[email protected]> (maintainer:BROADCOM
> BCM281XX/BCM11XXX/BCM216XX ARM ARCHITE...)
> Ray Jui <[email protected]> (maintainer:BROADCOM
> BCM281XX/BCM11XXX/BCM216XX ARM ARCHITE...)
> Scott Branden <[email protected]> (maintainer:BROADCOM
> BCM281XX/BCM11XXX/BCM216XX ARM ARCHITE...)
> [email protected] (maintainer:BROADCOM
> BCM281XX/BCM11XXX/BCM216XX ARM ARCHITE...)
> [email protected] (moderated list:BROADCOM BCM2835
> ARM ARCHITECTURE)
> [email protected] (moderated list:BROADCOM BCM2835
> ARM ARCHITECTURE)
> [email protected] (open list:STAGING SUBSYSTEM)
> [email protected] (open list)
>
> Why are the BROADCOM BCM281XX/BCM11XXX/BCM216XX ARM ARCHITE guys added
> to the list? The MAINTAINERS file defines these rules:
>
> BROADCOM BCM281XX/BCM11XXX/BCM216XX ARM ARCHITECTURE
> M: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
> M: Ray Jui <[email protected]>
> M: Scott Branden <[email protected]>
> M: [email protected]
> T: git git://github.com/broadcom/mach-bcm
> S: Maintained
> N: bcm281*
> N: bcm113*
> N: bcm216*
> N: kona
> F: arch/arm/mach-bcm/
>
> As far as I see, none of these rules matches the given path. Am I
> missing something?
The N entries are regex patterns. "bcm281*" matches any name starting
with "bcm28", followed by 0 or more 1's. So "bcm2835-audio" matches.
Yes, that looks like a bug in the MAINTAINERS entry. They probably
intended something along
N: bcm281.*
N: bcm113.*
N: bcm216.*
Bjørn
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