Bjørn, thanks for the explanations! On 2017-03-09 09:13:46, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Yes, that looks like a bug in the MAINTAINERS entry. They probably > intended something along > N: bcm281.* > N: bcm113.* > N: bcm216.*
On 2017-03-09 10:22:06, Bjørn Mork wrote: > I am obviously not the first one making that bogus assumption. Very few > of the "N:" entries in MAINTAINERS are anchored in any way. The rest of > them are likely buggy. No one expects these strings to match in the > middle of arbitrary path names. Even the example is a bit too wild > IMHO: > > N: Files and directories with regex patterns. > N: [^a-z]tegra all files whose path contains the word tegra I’ll contact the maintainers for this particular entry. Should the general issue be reported somewhere, e. g. on the LKML or to Joe Perches as the get_maintainer.pl maintainer? Robin
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