Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 May 2026 14:50:26 +0200 | | From | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/9] Improve process/maintainers output |
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On Mon, 4 May 2026 14:13:01 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
> On 5/4/26 8:51 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > Hi Jon, > > > > As promised, this series improve the output at process/maintainers: > > instead of a pure enriched text, the maintainer's file content is > > now converted with a table, and has gained a javascript to allow > > filtering entries. > > > > The initial patches change the logic to split parsing from > > output generation. Now, everything is stored into a dict at > > the parsing phase. This way, it is easier to adjust the > > directive handler for it to produce a more structured document. > > > > Right now, the entries are sorted alphabetically, per subsystem's > > name. > > How is subsystem determined? Just by the heading? > The MAINTAINERS file doesn't stay sorted so the output isn't sorted > unless I am just missing something basic. > > See e.g.: > DRM TTM SUBSYSTEM > GPU BUDDY ALLOCATOR > DRM AUTOMATED TESTING
It was preserving the same order as found at MAINTAINERS file, where the order is wrong. I added a sort function there (I guess I had it before internally on my branches some rebases).
-- Thanks, Mauro
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