On Tue, 2019-01-01 at 08:56 +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> Hi Joe,
Hi Manivannan.
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 11:12:18AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2019-01-01 at 00:25 +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > > Add the linux-actions mailing list for Actions Semi SoC architecture.
> >
> > Unrelated to adding this L: entry
> >
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > []
> > > @@ -1240,6 +1240,7 @@ ARM/ACTIONS SEMI ARCHITECTURE
> > > M: Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de>
> > > R: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasi...@linaro.org>
> > > L: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org (moderated for
> > > non-subscribers)
> > > +L: linux-acti...@lists.infradead.org (moderated for
> > > non-subscribers)
> > > S: Maintained
> > > N: owl
> >
> > The N: entry matches too many non-owl entries like:
> >
> > Documentation/parport-lowlevel.txt
> > drivers/misc/ibmasm/lowlevel.c
> > drivers/misc/ibmasm/lowlevel.h
> > fs/udf/lowlevel.c
> > net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
> > sound/soc/samsung/lowland.c
> >
> > Maybe there should be two entries
> >
> > N: /owl
> > N: -owl
> >
>
> Thanks for letting us know. Yes, we need to change it. How about below?
>
> N: owl-
> N: -owl
>
> Will do it as a follow-up patch if agreed!
from MAINTAINERS:
scripts/get_maintainer.pl has different behavior for files that
match F: pattern and matches of N: patterns. By default,
get_maintainer will not look at git log history when an F: pattern
match occurs. When an N: match occurs, git log history is used
to also notify the people that have git commit signatures.
F: entries are preferred to N: entries because the
get_maintainer.pl script does not assume that the
N: entries are exclusively maintained. Maybe use a
more comprehensive F: list like:
F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/*/*owl-*
F: arch/arm/boot/dts/owl-*
F: drivers/*/owl-*
F: drivers/*/*-owl*
F: drivers/*/*/owl-*
F: drivers/*/*/*-owl*
F: include/dt-bindings/power/owl-*
F: include/linux/soc/actions/owl-sps.h
