[PATCH V2 3/3] get_maintainer: prevent keywords from matching filenames

From: Stephen Warren
Date: Wed Mar 06 2013 - 19:29:19 EST


From: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>

This reverts most of eb90d08 "get_maintainer: allow keywords to match
filenames"; all except the parts that are required to implement the new
N: entry type.

The rationale is that it's better to have K: match just patch or file
content as it previously did, and N: match just filenames, rather than
have K: math all three cases. This gives more explicit control, and
removes the temptation to use K: for filenames, and then have those
keywords accidentally match unexpected patch or file content.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: New patch.
---
MAINTAINERS | 9 ++++-----
scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 2 +-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 2d02ab5..e68a07a 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -100,13 +100,12 @@ Descriptions of section entries:
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, or an affected filename. For instance:
+ patch or file. For instance:
K: of_get_profile
- matches patch or file content, or filenames, that contain
- "of_get_profile"
+ matches patches or files that contain "of_get_profile"
K: \b(printk|pr_(info|err))\b
- matches patch or file content, or filenames, that contain one or
- more of the words printk, pr_info or pr_err
+ 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
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 27dc5cb..5e4fb14 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ sub get_maintainers {
$hash{$tvi} = $value_pd;
}
}
- } elsif ($type eq 'K' || $type eq 'N') {
+ } elsif ($type eq 'N') {
if ($file =~ m/$value/x) {
$hash{$tvi} = 0;
}
--
1.7.10.4

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