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-rw-r--r--MAINTAINERS9
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/get_maintainer.pl4
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 1e5c3a4ece7b..0bc4d0e3d3b5 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -97,12 +97,13 @@ 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. For instance:
+ patch or file, or an affected filename. For instance:
K: of_get_profile
- matches patches or files that contain "of_get_profile"
+ matches patch or file content, or filenames, 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
+ matches patch or file content, or filenames, 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 18d4ab55606b..ce4cc837b748 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -611,6 +611,10 @@ sub get_maintainers {
$hash{$tvi} = $value_pd;
}
}
+ } elsif ($type eq 'K') {
+ if ($file =~ m/$value/x) {
+ $hash{$tvi} = 0;
+ }
}
}
}