Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering

From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 18:38:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1500860314.28002.1.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxw1fSZ-YoOY_pLFwbu2q+eZFg00+H6YBAq6tGOgonD=w@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 16:14 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Anyway, clearly my script showed something. I think my script is still
> > doing the right thing, it's just that the input is questionable.
> 
> I added a few actual checks for the error cases to the script, fixed
> up the problems, and committed the end result.
> 
> My perl skills are still very dubious, so I'm not proud of the script,

<shrug>

No one should be _that_ proud of perl skilz.
Not even monks.

> but it's there as "scripts/parse-mainainers.pl" now. The "output
> sorted result" part could *easily* be changed into "output sorted
> result into separate files based on the first word of the header" or
> something.

And match $map{$case} for various patterns too.

> But in the meantime, at least that MAINTAINERS file should _really_ be
> alpha-sorted now.

Thanks.

And for easy diffs the script should write out both
a modified MAINTAINERS without the matched sections
and a new file with the matched sections.