Re: [PATCH Y.A. RESEND] MAINTAINERS: fix alpha. ordering

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Jul 23 2017 - 19:26:52 EST


On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Anyway, clearly my script showed something. I think my script is still
> doing the right thing, it's just that the input is questionable.

I added a few actual checks for the error cases to the script, fixed
up the problems, and committed the end result.

My perl skills are still very dubious, so I'm not proud of the script,
but it's there as "scripts/parse-mainainers.pl" now. The "output
sorted result" part could *easily* be changed into "output sorted
result into separate files based on the first word of the header" or
something.

But in the meantime, at least that MAINTAINERS file should _really_ be
alpha-sorted now.

Linus