Re: [PATCH] Updated TTY MAINTAINERS info

[Lucas Kannebley Tavares]

On 01/09/2012 06:07 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 05:39:24PM -0200, Lucas Kannebley Tavares wrote:
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman is the current TTY maintainer, however he wouldn't appear
> > listed as such upon running get_maintainers.pl for drivers under
> > drivers/tty/serial.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lucas Kannebley Tavares<lucaskt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   MAINTAINERS |    2 +-
> >   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index cc6a466..6a856df 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -6641,7 +6641,7 @@ TTY LAYER
> >   M:	Greg Kroah-Hartman<gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> >   S:	Maintained
> >   T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6.git
> > -F:	drivers/tty/*
> > +F:	drivers/tty/
>
> Isn't this just a bug in the get_maintainers.pl script?  Why does this
> patch fix the problem?
>
> greg k-h

To quote from MAINTAINERS

>	F: Files and directories with wildcard patterns.
>	   A trailing slash includes all files and subdirectory files.
>	   F:	drivers/net/	all files in and below drivers/net
>	   F:	drivers/net/*	all files in drivers/net, but not below

In this case I believe you are the maintainer for the entire tree, or am 
I mistaken? If so, the documentation states that it shouldn't have an 
asterisk.

Lucas

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