From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755910AbYIHWUQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 18:20:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753390AbYIHWUD (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 18:20:03 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:29478 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753317AbYIHWUA convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 18:20:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:19:34 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Uwe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCHSCRIPT] MAINTAINERS: sort and merge P and M fields Message-Id: <20080908151934.4a361191.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20080908221139.GA10991@cassiopeia.tralala> References: <20080908221139.GA10991@cassiopeia.tralala> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.0; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:11:39 +0200 Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello Linus, > > some time ago I sent two patch scripts to LKML that changed the > MAINTAINERS file. One fixed the alphabetic ordering and another merged > the P and M fields to ease copy'n'paste. > > See > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/702194 > for the details. > > I still like both changes, but I think it's not sensible to send you the > resulting patches because MAINTAINERS changes frequently. > > If you like these two changes, too, I would be happy if you run the > attached script in your working copy. It simply wraps the two scripts > and commits the changes. > > Note that you need to apply the patch below before the scripts will > work. And note further that the script expects a clean working copy to > start with, because it uses git commit -a. I like it. Thanks. --- ~Randy Linux Plumbers Conference, 17-19 September 2008, Portland, Oregon USA http://linuxplumbersconf.org/