From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Harry Wei <jiaweiwei.xiyou@gmail.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com,
rdunlap@xenotime.net, pavel@ucw.cz
Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Quote non-alphanumeric email addresses
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:46:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1298177214.7179.55.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110220024842.GA2138@gmail.com>
Add quotes around email address with periods and commas.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
---
On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 10:48 +0800, Harry Wei wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:38:06AM +0800, harryxiyou wrote:
> > From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> > On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 17:48 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > On Wed 2011-02-09 19:17:52, David Miller wrote:
> > > > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > > > > I suspect that some mail clients will explode if you provide them with
> > > > > an unquoted string containing periods. That would make copy-n-paste
> > > > > rather a hassle.
> > > > It's not clients, it's servers.
> > > > SMTP rules state that characters such as "." cannot appear
> > > > unquoted in email headers.
> > > > vger.kernel.org rejects mail when this violation occurs.
> > > Ok, but should not MUA do this quotation? Quick test shows that mutt
> > does...
> > My recollection is that the get_maintainer script
> > cannot parse M: lines with multiple entries with
> > periods without the quotes.
> > M: First I. Last <fil@foo.bar>, Last.I.First <lif@foo.bar>
> > fails and
> > M: "First I. Last" <fil@foo.bar>, "Last.I.First" <lif@foo.bar>
> > succeeds.
> > You are welcome to improve the parsing in that routine.
> In order to improve the parsing in that routine we should remove all
> the the double-quotation-marks in the MAINTAINERS ?
No, that'd be wrong before improving parsing and
verifying that all currently used client/MUAs work
without quotes.
> Maybe we have other better ways? Tell me and i will patch for us.
I think leaving the quotes is the right thing to do.
Quoting names that have non alphanumeric
characters before any open angle bracket '<'
is better than remove quotes.
MAINTAINERS | 10 +++++-----
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index e45eabe..af586f8 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1044,7 +1044,7 @@ L: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
S: Maintained
ARM/TETON BGA MACHINE SUPPORT
-M: Mark F. Brown <mark.brown314@gmail.com>
+M: "Mark F. Brown" <mark.brown314@gmail.com>
L: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
S: Maintained
@@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ F: drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c
BLUETOOTH DRIVERS
M: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
-M: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
+M: "Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@profusion.mobi>
L: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
W: http://www.bluez.org/
T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/padovan/bluetooth-2.6.git
@@ -1457,7 +1457,7 @@ F: drivers/bluetooth/
BLUETOOTH SUBSYSTEM
M: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
-M: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
+M: "Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@profusion.mobi>
L: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
W: http://www.bluez.org/
T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/padovan/bluetooth-2.6.git
@@ -2909,7 +2909,7 @@ F: Documentation/blockdev/cpqarray.txt
F: drivers/block/cpqarray.*
HEWLETT-PACKARD SMART ARRAY RAID DRIVER (hpsa)
-M: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
+M: "Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
L: iss_storagedev@hp.com
S: Supported
F: Documentation/scsi/hpsa.txt
@@ -4197,7 +4197,7 @@ F: Documentation/serial/moxa-smartio
F: drivers/char/mxser.*
MSI LAPTOP SUPPORT
-M: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@novell.com>
+M: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@novell.com>
L: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained
F: drivers/platform/x86/msi-laptop.c
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-20 4:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-10 2:51 [PATCH]move double quotation marks so that keep MAINTAINERS consistent Harry Wei
2011-02-10 3:05 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=vV7xeeodvfEj_GV_7RO+Kp3WBpf9YRLLAPCBY@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-10 3:16 ` Fwd: " Harry Wei
2011-02-10 3:06 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-10 3:17 ` David Miller
2011-02-19 16:48 ` Pavel Machek
2011-02-19 21:59 ` Joe Perches
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=DbJUFfKA9EMnaUm89Fk2OEDWo64-Lu5H8Yjjv@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-20 2:48 ` Fwd: " Harry Wei
2011-02-20 4:46 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2011-02-20 13:20 ` [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Quote non-alphanumeric email addresses Harry Wei
2011-02-20 13:59 ` Harry Wei
2011-02-20 16:00 ` Joe Perches
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=qeg6jUBY-D68EW3bK_6EZRrXBE+JRj6GO92v2@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-21 5:07 ` Fwd: " Harry Wei
2011-02-22 9:28 ` [PATCH]move double quotation marks so that keep MAINTAINERS consistent Florian Mickler
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