Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Fix Intel TDX kernel file patterns
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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: 2026-10-30 17:16:59
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On Thu, 2026-10-29 at 19:33 -0700, Borislav Petkov wrote:
From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <[bp@alien8.de](mailto:bp@alien8.de)> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:25:27 -0700 A K: is a content regex file pattern which matches any text in a patch so if a commit message contains "TDx" as in the TDxE (Transmit Data Empty) flag for example, see [https://lore.kernel.org/r/20261026-g2ul_sci-v3-3-b3097163edd5@bp.renesas.com](https://lore.kernel.org/r/20261026-g2ul_sci-v3-3-b3097163edd5@bp.renesas.com) get_maintainer.pl erroneously adds the x86 gang to the Cc list for what obviously is a completely unrelated patch. The same happens when someone uses it to check drivers/power/reset/tdx-ec-poweroff.c patches. So switch the x86 TDX patterns to files and directories (N:) type patterns and group them by path, for less false positives.
It's probably better to use F: and not N:
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diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 7a162e9bcab1..6aaeb7df83c8 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS@@ -30347,8 +30347,11 @@ L: [linux-coco@lists.linux.dev](mailto:linux-coco@lists.linux.dev) L: [kvm@vger.kernel.org](mailto:kvm@vger.kernel.org) S: Supported T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86/tdx -N: tdx -K: \b(tdx) +N: arch/x86/.*tdx
F: arch/x86/**/*tdx*
+N: Documentation/.*tdx
F: Documentation/**/*tdx*
+N: drivers/virt/coco/.*tdx
F: drivers/virt/coco/tdx*/
+N: include/uapi/linux/.*tdx
F: include/uapi/linux/tdx-guest.h
+N: tools/testing/selftests/tdx
F: tools/testing/selftests/tdx/