Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757033Ab1BKVOo (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:14:44 -0500 Received: from ist.d-labs.de ([213.239.218.44]:46840 "EHLO mx01.d-labs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756781Ab1BKVOn (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:14:43 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:14:33 +0100 From: Florian Mickler To: Greg KH , Harry Wei Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net, rdunlap@xenotime.net, trivial@kernel.org Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS: a question about it Message-ID: <20110211221433.5f92368c@schatten.dmk.lab> In-Reply-To: <20110211154014.GA13716@kroah.com> References: <20110211122924.GA2088@gmail.com> <20110211154014.GA13716@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-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 Content-Length: 955 Lines: 23 On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:40:14 -0800 Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 08:29:28PM +0800, Harry Wei wrote: > > Hi us, > > I saw MAINTAINERS these days. I find we should program a script(shell) for checking if a maintainer added himself in correct position. > > Because the MAINTAINERS is in alphabetical order and it has lots of maintainers now. > > I just want to ask if anyone is doing this work. If it has been began i will do other things about kernel. If not, i will program this script(shell) for us. > > Why not just modify the 'scripts/get_maintainers.pl' tool to do this? > > thanks, > > greg k-h surely, you mean hooking it into 'scripts/checkpatch.pl' ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/