Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751709Ab1BUFH6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:07:58 -0500 Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:59036 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750735Ab1BUFHz (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:07:55 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=V1+dFIMO218Y1Uxu0YLQPJp7uNHfxsyI8tKGuODB4rf5jGVcG7Gpybem+mec8sm9x5 f3dcBKdS72uTsU97P8nP42GBWYB5lwE7U1OFXSVI+O3jnULrJPjgHiscFtiGN86jJejr r5ASInnnGxOrJXKwbmk2zOKfXBSbHqjyIzk4E= Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:07:46 +0800 From: Harry Wei To: joe@perches.com Cc: davem@davemloft.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net, pavel@ucw.cz Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Quote non-alphanumeric email addresses Message-ID: <20110221050744.GA2213@gmail.com> References: <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> <1298177214.7179.55.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20110220135918.GB1972@gmail.com> <1298217622.7179.93.camel@Joe-Laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2168 Lines: 71 On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:59:16PM +0800, jiaweiwei wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Joe Perches > Date: 2011/2/21 > Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Quote non-alphanumeric email addresses > 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 > > > On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 21:59 +0800, Harry Wei wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 08:46:54PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > > Add quotes around email address with periods and commas. > > Hmm, what about some other conditions except > > for periods and commas in maintainers' M:. > > Like following: > > 1> Character '-' in M: > > Dashes are not an issue. Get it. > > > 2> No name of the M: > > M: support@lsi.com > > Names and angle brackets are optional. Ok. > > > 3> Messy code in M: > > M: BenoƮt Cousson > > 8 bit characters _might_ be an issue, but > no one has reported any problems yet. Get it. > > I think you should read and understand rfc 2822 > before continuing with this. Thanks, i will read it :) > > Utilities like git send-email and get_maintainer.pl > generally provide email address parsing for only a > subset of all valid address styles. > > As these utilities are done mostly by regex, not > all valid email addresses are supported because the > regex validations get ridiculously complicated. > > There are some "monster" regex classes that attempt > to support a greater range of valid email address > styles, but the pain of implementation generally > isn't worth it. > > You're free to try to improve it of course, but I > think that modifications to the address styles > currently used in MAINTAINERS to remove "special" > address style handling isn't necessary. Get it, thanks. Best Regards. Harry Wei. > > > > > -- > do kernel -- 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/