On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 16:14 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Linus Torvalds > <torva...@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.