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Commit c7c4fb18 authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds
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MAINTAINERS: document new "K:" entry type 



K: is for keyword.  Syntax is perl extended regex.

Reorganized header documentation and indent the section entry descriptions
so that the first K: would not be considered a regex to match by
get_maintainer.pl

Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent dcf36a92

MAINTAINERS

+39 −31
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -65,13 +65,7 @@ trivial patch so apply some common sense. 


8.	Happy hacking.



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Maintainers List (try to look for most precise areas first)



Note: For the hard of thinking, this list is meant to remain in alphabetical

order. If you could add yourselves to it in alphabetical order that would be

so much easier [Ed]

Descriptions of section entries:



	P: Person (obsolete)

	M: Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain>
@@ -79,7 +73,6 @@ L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area 
	W: Web-page with status/info

	T: SCM tree type and location.  Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit.

	S: Status, one of the following:



	   Supported:	Someone is actually paid to look after this.

	   Maintained:	Someone actually looks after it.

	   Odd Fixes:	It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
@@ -89,7 +82,6 @@ S: Status, one of the following: 
	   Obsolete:	Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means

			it has been replaced by a better system and you

			should be using that.



	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
@@ -102,6 +94,22 @@ X: Files and directories that are NOT maintained, same rules as F: 
	   F:	net/

	   X:	net/ipv6/

	   matches all files in and below net excluding net/ipv6/

	K: Keyword perl extended regex pattern to match content in a

	   patch or file.  For instance:

	   K: of_get_profile

	      matches patches or files that contain "of_get_profile"

	   K: \b(printk|pr_(info|err))\b

	      matches patches or files that contain one or more of the words

	      printk, pr_info or pr_err

	   One regex pattern per line.  Multiple K: lines acceptable.



Note: For the hard of thinking, this list is meant to remain in alphabetical

order. If you could add yourselves to it in alphabetical order that would be

so much easier [Ed]



Maintainers List (try to look for most precise areas first)



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3C505 NETWORK DRIVER

M:	Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>