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diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 534a8dc4f84a..9271068bde63 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -77,21 +77,13 @@ Tips for patch submitters 8. Happy hacking. -Descriptions of section entries -------------------------------- +Descriptions of section entries and preferred order +--------------------------------------------------- M: *Mail* patches to: FullName <address@domain> R: Designated *Reviewer*: FullName <address@domain> These reviewers should be CCed on patches. L: *Mailing list* that is relevant to this area - W: *Web-page* with status/info - B: URI for where to file *bugs*. A web-page with detailed bug - filing info, a direct bug tracker link, or a mailto: URI. - C: URI for *chat* protocol, server and channel where developers - usually hang out, for example irc://server/channel. - Q: *Patchwork* web based patch tracking system site - T: *SCM* tree type and location. - Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit, topgit S: *Status*, one of the following: Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this. Maintained: Someone actually looks after it. @@ -102,30 +94,39 @@ Descriptions of section entries Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means it has been replaced by a better system and you should be using that. + W: *Web-page* with status/info + Q: *Patchwork* web based patch tracking system site + B: URI for where to file *bugs*. A web-page with detailed bug + filing info, a direct bug tracker link, or a mailto: URI. + C: URI for *chat* protocol, server and channel where developers + usually hang out, for example irc://server/channel. P: Subsystem Profile document for more details submitting patches to the given subsystem. This is either an in-tree file, or a URI. See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst for details. + T: *SCM* tree type and location. + Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit, topgit F: *Files* and directories wildcard patterns. A trailing slash includes all files and subdirectory files. F: drivers/net/ all files in and below drivers/net F: drivers/net/* all files in drivers/net, but not below F: */net/* all files in "any top level directory"/net One pattern per line. Multiple F: lines acceptable. + X: *Excluded* files and directories that are NOT maintained, same + rules as F:. Files exclusions are tested before file matches. + Can be useful for excluding a specific subdirectory, for instance: + F: net/ + X: net/ipv6/ + matches all files in and below net excluding net/ipv6/ N: Files and directories *Regex* patterns. - N: [^a-z]tegra all files whose path contains the word tegra + N: [^a-z]tegra all files whose path contains tegra + (not including files like integrator) One pattern per line. Multiple N: lines acceptable. scripts/get_maintainer.pl has different behavior for files that match F: pattern and matches of N: patterns. By default, get_maintainer will not look at git log history when an F: pattern match occurs. When an N: match occurs, git log history is used to also notify the people that have git commit signatures. - X: *Excluded* files and directories that are NOT maintained, same - rules as F:. Files exclusions are tested before file matches. - Can be useful for excluding a specific subdirectory, for instance: - F: net/ - X: net/ipv6/ - matches all files in and below net excluding net/ipv6/ K: *Content regex* (perl extended) pattern match in a patch or file. For instance: K: of_get_profile |