On 08/02/2017 01:04 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 13:32 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: >> Allow for MAINTAINERS to become a directory and if it is, >> read all the files in the directory for maintained sections. > > ping?
I often use $EDITOR to read or search the MAINTAINERS file. IMO, the parse-maintainters.pl (sorting) script makes the need for separate MAINTAINERS files much less important since the file can be "fixed" easily at any time. >> Also look for all files named MAINTAINERS in all subdirectories >> excluding the .git directory. >> >> This adds ~.3 seconds of CPU on an Intel i5-6200 with an SSD. >> >> Miscellanea: >> >> o Create a read_maintainer_file subroutine from the existing code >> o Test only the existence of MAINTAINERS, not whether it's a file >> >> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> >> --- >> >> v2: Search for MAINTAINERS in subdirectories, ignoring .git >> >> scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 84 >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- >> 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) -- ~Randy