From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C12C2D0B1 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 06:48:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A2C720720 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 06:48:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727841AbgBFGsq (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Feb 2020 01:48:46 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0109.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.109]:42253 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726538AbgBFGsq (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Feb 2020 01:48:46 -0500 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay05.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AD8818029154; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 06:48:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: wax40_6955ca1ea6d28 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2208 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.135.224]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 06:48:43 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <973a8964e7d8b8a98ec34c4efa8e2726cd88013a.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Remove uses of P: for maintainer name From: Joe Perches To: Dan Williams Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 22:47:32 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.34.1-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 20:14 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 7:23 PM Joe Perches wrote: > > commit 1ca84ed6425f ("MAINTAINERS: Reclaim the P: tag for > > Maintainer Entry Profile") changed the use of the "P:" tag > > from "Person" to "Profile (ie: special subsystem coding styles > > and characteristics)" > > > > Change how get_maintainer.pl parses the "P:" tag to match. > > Looks ok to me: > > Acked-by: Dan Williams > > ...although I was not able to trigger any unexpected results running > against drivers/nvdimm/. Because there aren't any entries like P: First Last M: maintainer@domain.tld where the name was a P: entry and the email address was on the next line. That was the form before 2009, but there were still a few entries until you changed them recently. A long time ago: commit 8b58be884a9fd650abb7f7adf3f885fb9cecd79d Author: Joe Perches Date: Wed Jul 29 15:04:30 2009 -0700 MAINTAINERS: coalesce name and email address lines Switch the MAINTAINERS email address format from P: Linus Torvalds M: torvalds@linux-foundation.org to M: Linus Torvalds