Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:43:44 +0100 | From | Florian Mickler <> | Subject | Re: MAINTAINERS: a question about it |
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:25:54 -0800 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:14:33PM +0100, Florian Mickler wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:40:14 -0800 > > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 08:29:28PM +0800, Harry Wei wrote: > > > > Hi us, > > > > I saw MAINTAINERS these days. I find we should program a script(shell) for checking if a maintainer added himself in correct position. > > > > Because the MAINTAINERS is in alphabetical order and it has lots of maintainers now. > > > > I just want to ask if anyone is doing this work. If it has been began i will do other things about kernel. If not, i will program this script(shell) for us. > > > > > > Why not just modify the 'scripts/get_maintainers.pl' tool to do this? > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > greg k-h > > > > surely, you mean hooking it into 'scripts/checkpatch.pl' ? > > > > No, I hadn't ment that, as I figured get_maintainers.pl already parsed > the MAINTAINERS file, so it might be easier to do it there.
perl -e '$last = "0"; while (<>) { @F = split(/:/); if ($begin) { if (!/^\s*$/ && length($F[0]) > 1) { unless ($last le $_) { print "header wrongly sorted! ($_)\n"; $err =1; } $last = $_; }}; $begin = 1 if ( $F[0] =~ /\t\t-----------------------------------$/);} exit(1) if ($err); ' < MAINTAINERS
:)
Regards, Flo
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