get_maintainer: allow keywords to match filenames
authorStephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:02:53 +0000 (17:02 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:10:09 +0000 (19:10 -0800)
commiteb90d0855b75f8d57350e55cfc20c4465215d215
tree48d41d615ff0a6c06c2991321a6223d5e90b7324
parent7ff6764061ecd4a4ef91db7b8b30aacc6a8573c9
get_maintainer: allow keywords to match filenames

Allow K: entries in MAINTAINERS to match directly against filenames;
either those extracted from patch +++ or --- lines, or those specified
on the command-line using the -f option.

This potentially allows fewer lines in a MAINTAINERS entry, if all the
relevant files are scattered throughout the whole kernel tree, yet
contain some common keyword.  An example would be using an ARM SoC name
as the keyword to catch all related drivers.

I don't think setting exact_pattern_match_hash would be appropriate
here; at least for intended Tegra use case, this feature is to ensure
that all Tegra-related driver changes get Cc'd to the Tegra mailing
list.  Setting exact_pattern_match_hash would prevent git history
parsing for e.g.  S-o-b tags, which still seems like it would be useful.
Hence, this flag isn't set.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
MAINTAINERS
scripts/get_maintainer.pl