From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752152Ab1HRRIQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:08:16 -0400 Received: from wondertoys-mx.wondertoys.net ([206.117.179.246]:44908 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751491Ab1HRRIP (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:08:15 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] MAINTAINERS: Fix list of perf events source files From: Joe Perches To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Geunsik Lim , Jiri Kosina , Li Zefan , Paul Mackerras , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo In-Reply-To: <1313686204-30295-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> References: <1313686204-30295-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> <1313686204-30295-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:08:12 -0700 Message-ID: <1313687292.32547.90.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 13:50 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > From: Geunsik Lim > Recent changes made kernel/perf_event.c be split and moved to > kernel/events/. [] > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS [] > @@ -4971,7 +4971,7 @@ M: Paul Mackerras [] > -F: kernel/perf_event*.c > +F: kernel/events/* Trivia... MAINTAINERS pattern matching in get_maintainer uses directory/ to match all files and files in subdirectories directory/* to match only the files in the directory but no files in any subdirectory This should probably be kernel/events/ so any future subdirectory files are also included. There is no effective difference today because no subdirectories of kernel/event/ exist.