Re: [PATCH 0/9] Improve process/maintainers output

Randy Dunlap
2026-05-04T21:13:02Z

On 5/4/26 8:51 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> As promised, this series improve the output at process/maintainers:
> instead of a pure enriched text, the maintainer's file content is
> now converted with a table, and has gained a javascript to allow
> filtering entries.
>
> The initial patches change the logic to split parsing from
> output generation. Now, everything is stored into a dict at
> the parsing phase. This way, it is easier to adjust the
> directive handler for it to produce a more structured document.
>
> Right now, the entries are sorted alphabetically, per subsystem's
> name.

How is subsystem determined? Just by the heading?
The MAINTAINERS file doesn't stay sorted so the output isn't sorted
unless I am just missing something basic.

See e.g.:
DRM TTM SUBSYSTEM
GPU BUDDY ALLOCATOR
DRM AUTOMATED TESTING

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~Randy