Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: i2c: mark also subdirectories as maintained

2015-10-30 Thread Wolfram Sang 
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 08:25:48AM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Otherwise get_maintainer.pl will fall back to git history and CC
> more people than needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang 
> Acked-by: Lee Jones 

Applied to for-next, thanks!



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Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: i2c: mark also subdirectories as maintained

2015-10-29 Thread Joe Perches 
On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 08:25 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Otherwise get_maintainer.pl will fall back to git history and CC
> more people than needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang 
> Acked-by: Lee Jones 
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 2f23aab10398bb..c3f01dc36b26b4 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -5090,6 +5090,7 @@ S:  Maintained
>  F:   Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/
>  F:   Documentation/i2c/
>  F:   drivers/i2c/
> +F:   drivers/i2c/*/
>  F:   include/linux/i2c.h
>  F:   include/linux/i2c-*.h
>  F:   include/uapi/linux/i2c.h

Maybe something like this too:

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index a2d50fe..ff0ca88 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -93,6 +93,14 @@ Descriptions of section entries:
   F:   drivers/net/*   all files in drivers/net, but not below
   F:   */net/* all files in "any top level directory"/net
   One pattern per line.  Multiple F: lines acceptable.
+  The scripts/get_maintainer.pl tool has a quirk about subdirectories.
+  If the file pattern is for a directory, then any subdirectories of
+  the parent directory should also be specified.  For instance:
+   F:  drivers/i2c/
+   F:  drivers/i2c/*/
+  Otherwise, the scripts/get_maintainer.pl tool by default will use
+  git history to add additional people that have "Signed-off-by:"
+  style signatures on commits to files in those subdirectories.
N: Files and directories with regex patterns.
   N:   [^a-z]tegra all files whose path contains the word tegra
   One pattern per line.  Multiple N: lines acceptable.


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Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: i2c: mark also subdirectories as maintained

2015-10-29 Thread Wolfram Sang 
> +The scripts/get_maintainer.pl tool has a quirk about subdirectories.
> +If the file pattern is for a directory, then any subdirectories of
> +the parent directory should also be specified.  For instance:
> + F:  drivers/i2c/
> + F:  drivers/i2c/*/
> +Otherwise, the scripts/get_maintainer.pl tool by default will use
> +git history to add additional people that have "Signed-off-by:"
> +style signatures on commits to files in those subdirectories.

I'd be fine with the change. The patch description should probably state
why fixing the tool is not worth it.



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Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: i2c: mark also subdirectories as maintained

2015-10-29 Thread Joe Perches 
On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 16:52 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > +  The scripts/get_maintainer.pl tool has a quirk about subdirectories.
> > +  If the file pattern is for a directory, then any subdirectories of
> > +  the parent directory should also be specified.  For instance:
> > +   F:  drivers/i2c/
> > +   F:  drivers/i2c/*/
> > +  Otherwise, the scripts/get_maintainer.pl tool by default will use
> > +  git history to add additional people that have "Signed-off-by:"
> > +  style signatures on commits to files in those subdirectories.
> 
> I'd be fine with the change. The patch description should probably state
> why fixing the tool is not worth it.

Not worth it vs inappropriate (arch/arm, etc...)

Maybe the wording around "quirk" could be improved or expanded.

Any suggestions?

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[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: i2c: mark also subdirectories as maintained

2015-10-29 Thread Wolfram Sang 
Otherwise get_maintainer.pl will fall back to git history and CC
more people than needed.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang 
Acked-by: Lee Jones 
---
 MAINTAINERS | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 2f23aab10398bb..c3f01dc36b26b4 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -5090,6 +5090,7 @@ S:Maintained
 F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/
 F: Documentation/i2c/
 F: drivers/i2c/
+F: drivers/i2c/*/
 F: include/linux/i2c.h
 F: include/linux/i2c-*.h
 F: include/uapi/linux/i2c.h
-- 
2.1.4

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