Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Quote non-alphanumeric email addresses

[Harry Wei]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 08:46:54PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> Add quotes around email address with periods and commas.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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 <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 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 <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > 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 <fil@xxxxxxx>, Last.I.First <lif@xxxxxxx>
> > > fails and
> > > M:      "First I. Last" <fil@xxxxxxx>, "Last.I.First" <lif@xxxxxxx>
> > > 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.
Hmm, what about some other conditions except 
for periods and commas in maintainers' M:. 
Like following:

1> Character '-' in M:
CALGARY x86-64 IOMMU
Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@xxxxxxxxxx>

2> No name of the M:
M:      support@xxxxxxx  

3> Messy code in M:
M:      BenoÃt Cousson <b-cousson@xxxxxx>

Should we also patch for them?
Can client/MUAs work them well?

Thanks.
Best Regards.
Harry Wei.
> 
>  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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (moderated for non-subscribers)
>  S:	Maintained
>  
>  ARM/TETON BGA MACHINE SUPPORT
> -M:	Mark F. Brown <mark.brown314@xxxxxxxxx>
> +M:	"Mark F. Brown" <mark.brown314@xxxxxxxxx>
>  L:	linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (moderated for non-subscribers)
>  S:	Maintained
>  
> @@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ F:	drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c
>  
>  BLUETOOTH DRIVERS
>  M:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> -M:	Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +M:	"Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  L:	linux-bluetooth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  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 <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> -M:	Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +M:	"Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  L:	linux-bluetooth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  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 <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +M:	"Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  L:	iss_storagedev@xxxxxx
>  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 <jlee@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +M:	"Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  L:	platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  S:	Maintained
>  F:	drivers/platform/x86/msi-laptop.c
> 
> 
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