Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Sun, 23 Jul 2017 18:38:34 -0700 |
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On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 16:14 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > > Anyway, clearly my script showed something. I think my script is still > > doing the right thing, it's just that the input is questionable. > > I added a few actual checks for the error cases to the script, fixed > up the problems, and committed the end result. > > My perl skills are still very dubious, so I'm not proud of the script,
<shrug>
No one should be _that_ proud of perl skilz. Not even monks.
> but it's there as "scripts/parse-mainainers.pl" now. The "output > sorted result" part could *easily* be changed into "output sorted > result into separate files based on the first word of the header" or > something.
And match $map{$case} for various patterns too.
> But in the meantime, at least that MAINTAINERS file should _really_ be > alpha-sorted now.
Thanks.
And for easy diffs the script should write out both a modified MAINTAINERS without the matched sections and a new file with the matched sections.
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