Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:39:38 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS |
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On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 08:34:55AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to add an entry to MAINTAINERS and while doing it I saw that in > the corresponding region the alphabetic ordering is broken. Then I > inteded to fix that up for a trivial patch. Next was to check the rest > of the file and there are so much misorderings that it's not sensible to > choose the trivial path anymore as there are currently 114 entries out > of order[1]. > > Below is a script that shows the misorderings after applying the > following patch: > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index e6c06fa..e9e36f8 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -1585,7 +1585,7 @@ S: Supported > EMBEDDED LINUX > P: Paul Gortmaker > M: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com > -P David Woodhouse > +P: David Woodhouse > M: dwmw2@infradead.org > L: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org > S: Maintained > > IMHO there are two good ways to continue: > - just ignore the misorderings; or > - write a more clever script that not only shows the misorderings but > fixes them and optimally let Linus directly apply it. > > I will try to come up with a script to prepare the second way.
If you succeed doing so it would be very good to fix up all mail entries to read:
M: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
so they are copy'n'paste friendly.
Sam
> > Best regards > Uwe > > #! /bin/sh > > tempfile="$(mktemp)"; > > # extract topics from MAINTAINERS > sed -n -e '1,/^P:/d' -e '/^[0-9a-zA-Z][^:]/p' MAINTAINERS > > "${tempfile}" > > sort "${tempfile}" | diff -u "${tempfile}" - > > rm "${tempfile}" > > [1] ukleinek@zentaur:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ order_maintainers | grep ^- | wc -l > 114 > > -- > Uwe Kleine-König, Software Engineer > Digi International GmbH Branch Breisach, Küferstrasse 8, 79206 Breisach, Germany > Tax: 315/5781/0242 / VAT: DE153662976 / Reg. Amtsgericht Dortmund HRB 13962 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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