OSes have additional maintainers that should be cc'd on patches or may
want to circulate internal patches.
Parse the .get_maintainer.MAINTAINERS file. Entries in the file
can begin with a '+' to indicate the email and list entries should be
added to the exiting MAINTAINERS output, or a '-' to indicate that the
entries should override the existing MAINTAINERS file.
Also add a help entry for the .get_maintainers.ignore file.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <pra...@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com>
Cc: dzic...@redhat.com
Cc: jtopp...@redhat.com
---
scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index c87fa734e3e1..239f4d2ce972 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -384,6 +384,32 @@ sub find_ignore_git {
read_all_maintainer_files();
sub read_all_maintainer_files {
+ my $conf = which_conf(".get_maintainer.MAINTAINERS");
+ if ( -f $conf) {
+ my @conf_args;
+ my $add = 0;
+ open(my $conffile, '<', "$conf")
+ or warn "$P: Can't find a readable .get_maintainer.MAINTAINERS
file $!\n";
+ while (<$conffile>) {
+ my $line = $_;
+ if ($line =~ m/^\+/ ) {
+ $add = 1;
+ }
+ next if ($line =~ m/^\s*#/);
+ $line =~ s/^\+//g;
+ $line =~ s/^\-//g;
+ $line =~ s/\s*\n?$//;
+ push(@mfiles, $line);
+ }
+ close($conffile);
+ if ($add eq 0) {
+ foreach my $file (@mfiles) {
+ read_maintainer_file("$file");
+ }
+ return;
+ }
+ }
+
if (-d "${lk_path}MAINTAINERS") {
opendir(DIR, "${lk_path}MAINTAINERS") or die $!;
my @files = readdir(DIR);
@@ -1068,6 +1094,14 @@ Notes:
Entries in this file can be any command line argument.
This file is prepended to any additional command line arguments.
Multiple lines and # comments are allowed.
+ File ".get_maintainer.ignore", if it exists in the linux kernel source root
+ directory, can contain a list of email addresses to ignore. Multiple
+ lines and # comments are allowed.
+ File ".get_maintainer.MAINTAINERS", if it exists in the linux kernel source
+ root directory, can change the location of the MAINTAINERS file.
+ Entries beginning with a '+' are added to the default list, and
+ entries beginning with a '-' override the existing MAINTAINERS list
+ lookup. Multiple lines and # comments are allowed.
Most options have both positive and negative forms.
The negative forms for --<foo> are --no<foo> and --no-<foo>.
--
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