On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 14:40 +0000, Pawel Moll wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 12:17 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 November 2014 12:04:09 Pawel Moll wrote:
> > >
> > > Right, of course. Whole directory.
> > >
> > > > F: */*/vexpress*
> > >
> > > Cool, didn't think about multiple wildcards.
> >
> > Actually, I think you could even do this as
> >
> > N: vexpress
> >
> > which would be even shorter and match most of the other entries too.
>
> If you think it's safe, fine with me. It would reduce this section to:
>
> N: vexpress
> F: drivers/clocksource/versatile.c
Yes, that's possible too, but:
from MAINTAINERS:
scripts/get_maintainer.pl has different behavior for files that
match F: pattern and matches of N: patterns. By default,
get_maintainer will not look at git log history when an F: pattern
match occurs. When an N: match occurs, git log history is used
to also notify the people that have git commit signatures.
I think it's better to use F: entries because
there is a get_maintainer difference in behavior
between N: and F: entries.
An N: entry means get_maintainer will also cc
patch submitters for these files.
An F: entry will not.
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