Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753716Ab1BTEq5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:46:57 -0500 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:3794 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751668Ab1BTEq4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:46:56 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Quote non-alphanumeric email addresses From: Joe Perches To: Harry Wei Cc: davem@davemloft.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net, pavel@ucw.cz In-Reply-To: <20110220024842.GA2138@gmail.com> References: <20110210025133.GA3285@gmail.com> <20110209190631.f29419ef.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20110209.191752.226762899.davem@davemloft.net> <20110219164839.GA20047@ucw.cz> <1298152790.7179.27.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20110220024842.GA2138@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:46:54 -0800 Message-ID: <1298177214.7179.55.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3818 Lines: 101 Add quotes around email address with periods and commas. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches --- On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 10:48 +0800, Harry Wei wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:38:06AM +0800, harryxiyou wrote: > > From: Joe Perches > > On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 17:48 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > On Wed 2011-02-09 19:17:52, David Miller wrote: > > > > From: Andrew Morton > > > > > I suspect that some mail clients will explode if you provide them with > > > > > an unquoted string containing periods. That would make copy-n-paste > > > > > rather a hassle. > > > > It's not clients, it's servers. > > > > SMTP rules state that characters such as "." cannot appear > > > > unquoted in email headers. > > > > vger.kernel.org rejects mail when this violation occurs. > > > Ok, but should not MUA do this quotation? Quick test shows that mutt > > does... > > My recollection is that the get_maintainer script > > cannot parse M: lines with multiple entries with > > periods without the quotes. > > M: First I. Last , Last.I.First > > fails and > > M: "First I. Last" , "Last.I.First" > > succeeds. > > You are welcome to improve the parsing in that routine. > In order to improve the parsing in that routine we should remove all > the the double-quotation-marks in the MAINTAINERS ? No, that'd be wrong before improving parsing and verifying that all currently used client/MUAs work without quotes. > Maybe we have other better ways? Tell me and i will patch for us. I think leaving the quotes is the right thing to do. Quoting names that have non alphanumeric characters before any open angle bracket '<' is better than remove quotes. MAINTAINERS | 10 +++++----- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index e45eabe..af586f8 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -1044,7 +1044,7 @@ L: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers) S: Maintained ARM/TETON BGA MACHINE SUPPORT -M: Mark F. Brown +M: "Mark F. Brown" L: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers) S: Maintained @@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ F: drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c BLUETOOTH DRIVERS M: Marcel Holtmann -M: Gustavo F. Padovan +M: "Gustavo F. Padovan" L: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org W: http://www.bluez.org/ T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/padovan/bluetooth-2.6.git @@ -1457,7 +1457,7 @@ F: drivers/bluetooth/ BLUETOOTH SUBSYSTEM M: Marcel Holtmann -M: Gustavo F. Padovan +M: "Gustavo F. Padovan" L: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org W: http://www.bluez.org/ T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/padovan/bluetooth-2.6.git @@ -2909,7 +2909,7 @@ F: Documentation/blockdev/cpqarray.txt F: drivers/block/cpqarray.* HEWLETT-PACKARD SMART ARRAY RAID DRIVER (hpsa) -M: Stephen M. Cameron +M: "Stephen M. Cameron" L: iss_storagedev@hp.com S: Supported F: Documentation/scsi/hpsa.txt @@ -4197,7 +4197,7 @@ F: Documentation/serial/moxa-smartio F: drivers/char/mxser.* MSI LAPTOP SUPPORT -M: Lee, Chun-Yi +M: "Lee, Chun-Yi" L: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained F: drivers/platform/x86/msi-laptop.c -- 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/