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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add an entry for the input MT protocol
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
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On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 00:31 +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 00:04 +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> >> This patch adds a maintainer for the input multitouch (MT) protocol,
> >> such that get_maintainer.pl selects it whenever an MT event is present
> >> in the patch.
> >> +MULTITOUCH INPUT MT PROTOCOL
> >> +M:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
> >> +L:	linux-input@vger.kernel.org
> >> +S:	Maintained
> >> +F:	Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt
> >> +K:	ABS_MT
> > That doesn't seem to match anything other than multitouch
> > stuff, but it's probably best to specify the pattern as
> > much as possible.
> > If you didn't know, K: entries can be entered as perl regex,
> > so maybe something like:
> > K:	\b(ABS|SYN)_MT_
> Thanks for the info. However, since every application using the MT protocol by
> necessity uses at least one event called ABS_MT*, it should be fine as is,
> shouldn't it?

Maybe.  The leading \b and trailing _ are just attempts to
avoid potential clashes with future stuff.