linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] get_maintainer: Look for arbitrary letter prefixes in sections

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Date:   Thu, 03 Nov 2016 10:07:23 +0100
From:   Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        daniel@...ll.ch, airlied@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] get_maintainer: Look for arbitrary letter prefixes
 in sections

On Mon, 2016-10-24 at 11:05 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Jani Nikula proposes patches to add a few new letter prefixes
> for "B:" bug reporting and "C:" maintainer chatting to the
> various sections of MAINTAINERS.
> 
> Add a generic mechanism to get_maintainer.pl to find sections that
> have any combination of "[A-Z]" letter prefix types in a section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>

This patch made it into linux-next (ie, next-20161028).

> --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl

> @@ -271,7 +273,8 @@ $output_multiline = 0 if ($output_separator ne ", ");
>  $output_rolestats = 1 if ($interactive);
>  $output_roles = 1 if ($output_rolestats);
>  
> -if ($sections) {
> +if ($sections || $letters ne "") {
> +    $sections = 1;

This triggers:
    Unrecognized character \xA0; marked by <-- HERE after <-- HERE near column 1 at ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 277.

Git blame shows:
    git blame -L 277,+1 ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl
    b67071653d3fc (Joe Perches 2016-10-28 13:22:01 +1100 277) <A0><A0><A0><A0>$sections = 1;

(A0 seems to be the no break space. That character was inserted more
often further down the patch.)

Anybody else seeing this?


Paul Bolle