M | Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain>. |
R | Reviewer: FullName <address@domain>. These reviewers should be CCed on patches. |
L | Mailing list that is relevant to this area |
S | Status, one of the following: Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this; Maintained: Someone actually looks after it. Odd Fixes: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do much other than throw the odd patch in. Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the role as you write your new code]. Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means it has been replaced by a better system and you should be using that. |
W | Web-page with status/info |
Q | Patchwork web based patch tracking system site |
B | URI for where to file bugs. A web-page with detailed bug filing info, a direct bug tracker link, or a mailto: URI. |
C | URI for chat protocol, server and channel where developers usually hang out, for example irc://server/channel. |
P | Subsystem Profile document for more details submitting patches to the given subsystem. This is either an in-tree file, or a URI. See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst for details. |
T | SCM tree type and location. Type is one of git, hg, quilt, stgit or topgit |
F | Files and directories wildcard patterns. A trailing slash includes all files and subdirectory files. F: drivers/net/: all files in and below drivers/net; F drivers/net/* all files in drivers/net, but not below; F */net/*: all files in any top level directory /net. One pattern per line but multiple F lines acceptable. |
X | Excluded files and directories that are not maintained, same rules as for F:. Files exclusions are tested before file matches. Can be useful for excluding a specific subdirectory, for instance: F: net/ and X: net/ipv6/ matches all files in and below net excluding net/ipv6/. |
N | Files and directories regex patterns. (N: [^a-z]tegra matches all files whose path ends on tegra, files like integrator are not included). One pattern per line, multiple N: lines acceptable. scripts/get_maintainer.pl has different behavior for files that match F: pattern and matches of N: patterns. By default get_maintainer.pl will not look at git log history when an F: pattern match occurs. When an N: match occurs, git log history is used to also notify the people that have git commit signatures. |
K | Content regex (perl extended) pattern match in a patch or file. |