Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Move entry for Cirrus Logic Madera codecs

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Tue, 2018-08-28 at 17:28 +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Richard Fitzgerald
> <rf@opensource.cirrus.com> wrote:
> > Reviewed-by: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com>
> > 
> > A maintainer for MAINTAINERS would help avoid these problems, which will
> > tend to happen when changes to the file go through many trees.
> > 
> 
> A year ago Linus committed 7683e9e52 ("Properly alphabetize
> MAINTAINERS file") which adds scripts/parse-maintainers.pl.
> 
> I guess it could just be run once in a while (e.g. before a kernel is
> released, for instance).

And a few patches for parse-maintainers.pl were
added after that.

The latest version also reorders and alphabetizes
the subfields of each section to a preferred order.

So running that latest version would produce quite
a large diff.

That large a diff should only occur once though.

$ perl ./scripts/parse-maintainers.pl --output MAINTAINERS
$ git diff --stat MAINTAINERS
 MAINTAINERS | 4014 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
 1 file changed, 2007 insertions(+), 2007 deletions(-)

vs

$ git checkout 7683e9e52 -- scripts/parse-maintainers.pl
$ perl ./scripts/parse-maintainers.pl < MAINTAINERS > MAINTAINERS.new
$ mv MAINTAINERS.new MAINTAINERS
$ git diff --stat MAINTAINERS
 MAINTAINERS | 574 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
 1 file changed, 287 insertions(+), 287 deletions(-)