Re: [PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS: Document new "K:" entry type

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Oct 12 2009 - 07:37:00 EST


On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 12:14 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Joe Perches wrote:
> > + 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
> What expressions do you expect people will be using here?

Keywords or keyword initiators specific to a facility
that's used kernel-wide.

> (the example with printk() doesn't really demonstrate usefulness of this).

A useful, simple example would be cheerfully substituted.
maybe:
K: \b(AUDIT|audit)_

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