Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:34:55 +0200 | From | Uwe Kleine-König <> | Subject | alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS |
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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.
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/
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