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diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 6a3f5ab209e1..23a61d9d0e78 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -65,43 +65,51 @@ trivial patch so apply some common sense. 8. Happy hacking. - ----------------------------------- - -Maintainers List (try to look for most precise areas first) +Descriptions of section entries: + + P: Person (obsolete) + M: Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain> + L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area + W: Web-page with status/info + T: SCM tree type and location. Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit. + S: Status, one of the following: + Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this. + Maintained: Someone actually looks after it. + Odd Fixes: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do + much other than throw the odd patch in. See below.. + Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the + role as you write your new code]. + Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means + it has been replaced by a better system and you + should be using that. + F: Files and directories with 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: 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: 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 + One regex pattern per line. Multiple K: lines acceptable. Note: For the hard of thinking, this list is meant to remain in alphabetical order. If you could add yourselves to it in alphabetical order that would be so much easier [Ed] -P: Person (obsolete) -M: Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain> -L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area -W: Web-page with status/info -T: SCM tree type and location. Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit. -S: Status, one of the following: - - Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this. - Maintained: Someone actually looks after it. - Odd Fixes: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do - much other than throw the odd patch in. See below.. - Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the - role as you write your new code]. - Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means - it has been replaced by a better system and you - should be using that. +Maintainers List (try to look for most precise areas first) -F: Files and directories with 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: 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/ + ----------------------------------- 3C505 NETWORK DRIVER M: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org> |