Linux kernel mirror (for testing) git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
kernel os linux

MAINTAINERS: describe differences between F: and N: patterns

There is a difference in how scripts/get_maintainer.pl treats
F: and N: file pattern matches.

Describe those differences in the MAINTAINERS file.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Joe Perches and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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MAINTAINERS
··· 93 93 N: Files and directories with regex patterns. 94 94 N: [^a-z]tegra all files whose path contains the word tegra 95 95 One pattern per line. Multiple N: lines acceptable. 96 + scripts/get_maintainer.pl has different behavior for files that 97 + match F: pattern and matches of N: patterns. By default, 98 + get_maintainer will not look at git log history when an F: pattern 99 + match occurs. When an N: match occurs, git log history is used 100 + to also notify the people that have git commit signatures. 96 101 X: Files and directories that are NOT maintained, same rules as F: 97 102 Files exclusions are tested before file matches. 98 103 Can be useful for excluding a specific subdirectory, for instance: