Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Sort entries using parse-maintainers.pl | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Sat, 04 Dec 2021 14:34:36 -0800 |
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On Sat, 2021-12-04 at 20:48 +0100, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote: > On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 10:20:24AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Sat, 2021-12-04 at 18:52 +0100, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote: > > > The MAINTAINERS file got slightly out of order again, making it > > > difficult to put new entries at the right (alphabetical) position. > > > > > > Run parse-maintainers.pl to restore the alphabetical order. > > [] > > > Checkpatch warns about a few unordered "F:" lines within sections, but I > > > left those alone because I wanted this patch to be as automated as possible. > > > > The --order option does that. > > > > $ ./scripts/parse-maintainers.pl --order --output MAINTAINERS > > Ah, good point. > > Unfortunately, the result of parse-maintainers.pl --order currently > produces a (small) merge conflict when merged/cherry-picked on top of > -next, so it might be better to start without --order. (Not sure.)
My preference is still to automate the running of this command by some script and apply it just before every -rc1 is released.
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