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=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS 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 DB5BFC43331 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 02:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E40206DB for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 02:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728982AbgC3ChS (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Mar 2020 22:37:18 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0140.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.140]:56806 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728202AbgC3ChS (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Mar 2020 22:37:18 -0400 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay04.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D4E8180A8CA9; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 02:37:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: event23_79c1558705c46 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1860 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.136.130]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf14.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 02:37:16 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: re: commit 23cb8490c0d3 ("MAINTAINERS: fix bad file pattern") From: Joe Perches To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andy Shevchenko , Lukas Bulwahn , LKML Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:35:22 -0700 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 MAINTAINERS: fix bad file pattern Testing 'parse-maintainers' due to the previous commit shows a bad file pattern for the "TI VPE/CAL DRIVERS" entry in the MAINTAINERS file. There's also a lot of mis-ordered entries, but I'm still a bit nervous about the inevitable and annoying merge problems it would probably cause to fix them up. The MAINTAINERS file is one of my least favorite files due to being huge and centralized, but fixing it is also horribly painful for that reason. The identical commit was sent at least twice. Once directly to you. https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11361131/ https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20200128145828.74161-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com/ About the pain associated to fixing the file: I think it would be minimally painful to run $ ./scripts/parse-maintainers.pl --input=MAINTAINERS --output=MAINTAINERS --order Immediately before an -rc1 is released. Relatively few of any pending patches to MAINTAINERS in -next would be impacted and there would be better consistency in the silly file.