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Sam Ravnborg wrote: > 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. IMHO this would be a second step, but I like it. Best regards Uwe -- 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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