From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752797AbbLRMIJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Dec 2015 07:08:09 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:38355 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752373AbbLRMIH (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Dec 2015 07:08:07 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 13:07:55 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Fengguang Wu Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML , Doug Thompson Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/43] MAINTAINERS: fix git URL for EDAC Message-ID: <20151218120755.GD16977@pd.tnic> References: <20151218075123.282550478@intel.com> <20151218080625.745540243@intel.com> <20151218104908.GA16977@pd.tnic> <20151218105733.GA20734@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com> <20151218114155.GC16977@pd.tnic> <20151218115539.GA8548@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151218115539.GA8548@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 07:55:39PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > That's all right for humans, however there are also in-tree and > out-of-tree scripts that parse the MAINTAINERS file and depend on > the current format. Hmm, it doesn't say that in the T: description - I thought it was for humans only. Besides, scripts can parse stuff in brackets too. > So isn't it better to change the several lines for EDAC than to > convert hundreds of lines to the new format, plus converting the > related scripts? Not better - easier. I'm pointing out that this scheme is suboptimal. Someone might read it and decide to fix it, who knows. :) Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.