Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: extend file entry in KHO to include subdirectories

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 03:32:38PM +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> From: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com>
> 
> Commit 3498209ff64e ("Documentation: add documentation for KHO") adds the
> file entry for 'Documentation/core-api/kho/*'. The asterisk in the end
> means that all files in kho are included, but not files in its
> subdirectories below.

Add blank line between paragraphs as you did below.

> Hence, the files under Documentation/core-api/kho/bindings/ are not
> considered part of KHO, and get_maintainers.pl does not necessarily add the
> KHO maintainers to the recipients of patches to those files. Probably, this
> is not intended, though, and it was simply an oversight of the detailed
> semantics of such file entries.
> 
> Make the file entry to include the subdirectories of
> Documentation/core-api/kho/.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 06ff926c5331..499b52d7793f 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -13836,7 +13836,7 @@ L:	kexec@lists.infradead.org
>  L:	linux-mm@kvack.org
>  S:	Maintained
>  F:	Documentation/admin-guide/mm/kho.rst
> -F:	Documentation/core-api/kho/*
> +F:	Documentation/core-api/kho/
>  F:	include/linux/kexec_handover.h
>  F:	kernel/kexec_handover.c
>  F:	tools/testing/selftests/kho/
> -- 
> 2.51.1
>