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SubjectRe: XDP maintainer match (Was [PATCH v2 0/2] hwmon: (max127) Add Maxim MAX127 hardware monitoring)
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On Thu, 2020-11-19 at 17:35 +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 07:46:34 -0800 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:

> I think it is a good idea to change the keyword (K:), but I'm not sure
> this catch what we want, maybe it does. The pattern match are meant to
> catch drivers containing XDP related bits.
>
> Previously Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> suggested this pattern match,
> which I don't fully understand... could you explain Joe?
>
>   (?:\b|_)xdp(?:\b|_)

This regex matches only:

xdp
xdp_<anything>
<anything>_xdp_<anything>
<anything>_xdp

> For the filename (N:) regex match, I'm considering if we should remove
> it and list more files explicitly. I think normal glob * pattern
> works, which should be sufficient.

Lists are generally more specific than regex globs.


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