Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering

From	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering
Date	2017-07-24 03:40 +0200
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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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Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-07-23 21:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-07-23 22:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-07-23 22:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-07-24 01:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-07-24 03:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-07-28 02:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-07-28 04:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-07-28 05:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-07-29 00:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-07-29 03:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-07-29 19:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-07-23 22:10 +0200

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