Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:25:54 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Cc: Harry Wei <jiaweiwei.xiyou@gmail.com>, 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
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:14:33PM +0100, Florian Mickler wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:40:14 -0800
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> 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' ?
> 

No, I hadn't ment that, as I figured get_maintainers.pl already parsed
the MAINTAINERS file, so it might be easier to do it there.

But you are probably right, it's only an issue when you add a
MAINTAINERS entry, so it should go into that script.

Although I'm really loath to add any more to that script, it's slow
enough as it is on large patches :(

thanks,

greg k-h
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