Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> writes:
The N entries are regex patterns. "bcm281*" matches any name starting with "bcm28", followed by 0 or more 1's.
This isn't entirely correct. I assumed there was some implicit anchoring on path name components, but there isnt. So "bcm281*" will match any file containing "bcm28" somewhere in the path. I am obviously not the first one making that bogus assumption. Very few of the "N:" entries in MAINTAINERS are anchored in any way. The rest of them are likely buggy. No one expects these strings to match in the middle of arbitrary path names. Even the example is a bit too wild IMHO: N: Files and directories with regex patterns. N: [^a-z]tegra all files whose path contains the word tegra The '[^a-z]' prevents this from matching any word containing "tegra". But it will still match e.g "INtegrator" or "b1tegrasp", which is unexpected. It would be better to use a more explicit anchor, like '[-/]tegra'. Or maybe even "/tegra". Bjørn