get_maintainer: allow option --mpath <directory> to read all files in <directory>
authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 04:56:55 +0000 (21:56 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:52:48 +0000 (10:52 -0700)
commit0fbd75fd7feedd9e38fc1d3a01317aa23b83d29e
tree5a3785944369672e354a9c16fcadd5aae7ffe300
parent5f0baf95b1edfff5eb9b6f571febb859b047de97
get_maintainer: allow option --mpath <directory> to read all files in <directory>

There is an external use case for multiple private MAINTAINER style files
in a separate directory.  Allow it.

--mpath has a default of "./MAINTAINERS".

The value entered can be either a file or a directory.

The behaviors are now:

--mpath <file>          Read only the specific file as <MAINTAINER_TYPE> file
--mpath <directory>     Read all files in <directory> as <MAINTAINER_TYPE> files
--mpath <directory> --find-maintainer-files
                        Recurse through <directory> and read all files named MAINTAINERS

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/991b2f20112d53863cd79e61d908f1d26d3e1971.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/get_maintainer.pl