scripts/get_maintainer.pl: add --pattern-depth
--pattern-depth is used to control how many levels of directory traversal should be performed to find maintainers. default is 0 (all directory levels). For instance: MAINTAINERS currently has multiple M: and F: entries that match net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_app.c IPVS M: Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org> M: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> M: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> [...] F: net/netfilter/ipvs/ NETFILTER/IPTABLES/IPCHAINS [...] M: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> [...] F: net/netfilter/ NETWORKING [GENERAL] M: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> [...] F: net/ THE REST M: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [...] F: */ Using this command will return all of those maintainers: (except Linus unless --git-chief-maintainers is specified) $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit -nol \ -f net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_app.c Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org> Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Adding --pattern-depth=1 will match at the deepest level $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit -nol --pattern-depth=1 \ -f net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_app.c Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org> Adding --pattern-depth=2 will match at the deepest level and 1 higher $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit -nol --pattern-depth=2 \ -f net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_app.c Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org> Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> and so on. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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