On Sat, 2020-11-28 at 07:36 -0800, Tom Rix wrote: > On 11/27/20 2:10 PM, Joe Perches wrote: [] > > I think an exception mechanism would be better than a specific > > mechanism added to various entries. > Can you give an example of what you mean ?
Inherit the parent prefix then add the basename(dirname) as a default. For instance, changes to any subsystem of drivers/staging starts as "staging: " and with "$basename(path): " appended. So the MAINTAINERS entry for staging could be: STAGING SUBSYSTEM M: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> L: de...@driverdev.osuosl.org S: Supported T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git D: "staging: " F: drivers/staging/ Any specified D: use would override the generic form. And generic ARM changes could use the same mechanism with: ARM PORT M: Russell King <li...@armlinux.org.uk> L: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers) S: Odd Fixes W: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/ T: git git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm.git D: "ARM: " F: arch/arm/ X: arch/arm/boot/dts/ And media likewise: MEDIA INPUT INFRASTRUCTURE (V4L/DVB) M: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@kernel.org> L: linux-me...@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained W: https://linuxtv.org Q: http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-media/list/ T: git git://linuxtv.org/media_tree.git D: "media: " F: Documentation/admin-guide/media/ F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/ F: Documentation/driver-api/media/ F: Documentation/userspace-api/media/ F: drivers/media/ F: drivers/staging/media/ F: include/linux/platform_data/media/ F: include/media/ F: include/uapi/linux/dvb/ F: include/uapi/linux/ivtv* F: include/uapi/linux/media.h F: include/uapi/linux/meye.h F: include/uapi/linux/uvcvideo.h F: include/uapi/linux/v4l2-* F: include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h etc... > > > # check MAINTAINERS entries for the right ordering too > > > - my $preferred_order = 'MRLSWQBCPTFXNK'; > > > + my $preferred_order = 'MRLSWQBCPTFXNKD'; > > > if ($rawline =~ /^\+[A-Z]:/ && > > > $prevrawline =~ /^[\+ ][A-Z]:/) { > > > $rawline =~ /^\+([A-Z]):\s*(.*)/; > > I'd prefer to keep the file and keyword list last. > > > So change to > > my $preferred_order = 'MRLSWQBCPTDFXNK'; > > ? Right. And update the preferred_order in scripts/parse-maintainers.pl too.
