From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752600AbYJ0Wyi (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:54:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751782AbYJ0Wya (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:54:30 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:52227 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751704AbYJ0Wy3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:54:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:52:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Joe Perches Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, pavel@suse.cz, ukleinek@strlen.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Add scripts/get_maintainer.pl Message-Id: <20081027155254.a710c779.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <1224803366-6478-1-git-send-email-joe@perches.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:09:19 -0700 Joe Perches wrote: > A script to parse file pattern information in MAINTAINERS > and return selected information about a file or patch > > $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl > usage: ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl [options] patchfile > ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl [options] -f file > version: 0.12 Example output would be nice to see. Hopefully it is in the Joe Perches form, ready to be pasted into an email client? otoh, we'll sometimes also want the joe@perches.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org form for use by scripts. Also, this: MAINTAINERS | 1096 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 1094 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) isn't practical for me or Stephen to carry, I'm afraid. That's probably the most-patched file in the kernel. This will need to be a direct you->Linus thing. I think the feature is sorely needed and will prove useful.