Re: [BUG]: get-maintainers unable to respect parenthesis in subsystem name

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 10:27 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> I used get-maintainers today to submit few patches for OPP framework
> and that is defined as below in MAINTAINERS:
> 
> OPERATING PERFORMANCE POINTS (OPP)
> M:      Viresh Kumar <vireshk@kernel.org>
> M:      Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
> M:      Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
> L:      linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> S:      Maintained
> T:      git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vireshk/pm.git
> F:      drivers/base/power/opp/
> F:      include/linux/pm_opp.h
> F:      Documentation/power/opp.txt
> F:      Documentation/devicetree/bindings/opp/
> 
> 
> The parenthesis in the subsystem-name causes the cc list to look like:
> 
> Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org,
> linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
> Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
> Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>,
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
> Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list),
> linux-pm@vger.kernel.org) (open list:OPERATING PERFORMANCE POINTS (OPP),
> Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>,
> Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
> Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
> Viresh Kumar <vireshk@kernel.org>
> 
> 
> 
> Look at the second linux-pm entry here, it adds a ')' at the end of
> the list's address
> and removes it from the end of the line.
> 
> And so that becomes an invalid address to git-send-email.
> 
> Dropping () from the subsystem name fixes it though..
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --
> viresh

Not what I get with current -next:

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f Documentation/power/opp.txt 
Viresh Kumar <vireshk@kernel.org> (maintainer:OPERATING PERFORMANCE POINTS (OPP))
Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> (maintainer:OPERATING PERFORMANCE POINTS (OPP))
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> (maintainer:OPERATING PERFORMANCE POINTS (OPP))
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> (supporter:SUSPEND TO RAM)
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> (supporter:SUSPEND TO RAM)
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> (supporter:SUSPEND TO RAM)
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org (open list:OPERATING PERFORMANCE POINTS (OPP))
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)