Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: get_maintainers.pl doesn't actually get the real MAINTAINERS? | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:26:13 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2014-10-14 at 19:18 -0700, Scott Branden wrote: > Hello, > > I try running scripts/get_maintainers.pl but it doesn't seem to get the > real maintainers properly. Please note this is run against the current > MAINTAINERS file. > > One Example: I would expect drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-bcm2835.c to be > maintained by Stephen Warren based on drivers/*/*bcm2835* below.
get_maintainers doesn't use * as a depth wildcard
*/ matches a single top level directory level */*/ matches one level below the top directory level.
> But > the get_maintainers.pl script does not seem to process the information > in such a way. So what needs to be corrected - the script or the syntax > used in the MAINTAINERS file? > > BROADCOM BCM2835 ARM ARCHICTURE > M: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> > L: linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers) > T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/swarren/linux-rpi.git > S: Maintained > F: arch/arm/mach-bcm/board_bcm2835.c > F: arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm2835* > F: arch/arm/configs/bcm2835_defconfig > F: drivers/*/*bcm2835*
F: drivers/*/*/*bmc2835*
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