On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 08:31:47AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On a separate note...it occurred to me, rather belatedly as usual, that > last time we discussed doing this that there was some opposition to adding > a second MAINTAINERS parser to the kernel; future changes to the format of > that file may force both to be adjusted, and somebody will invariably > forget one. Addressing that, if we feel a need to do so, probably requires > tweaking get_maintainer.pl to output the information in a useful format.
That's a reasonable point, but I would make two observations: - get_maintainers.pl is written in Perl and I really don't want to write more Perl. ;) - the parsing methods in get_maintainers is much more focused on the file/pattern matching and is blind to the structure of the rest of the document (it only examines '^[A-Z]:' and blank lines), and does so "on demand", in that it hunts through the entire MAINTAINERS file contents for each path match. So I don't think it's suitable to merge functionality here... -- Kees Cook
