linux-kernel - Re: [patch] get_maintainer: handle file names beginning with ./

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Message-ID: <1452275227.4028.76.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Fri, 08 Jan 2016 09:47:07 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] get_maintainer: handle file names beginning with ./

On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 16:44 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 03:37:56AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 13:51 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > The problem is that get_maintainer.pl doesn't work if you have a ./
> > > prefix on the filename.  For example, if you type:
> > > 
> > >     ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f ./drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c
> > 
> > Someone's been feeding find output to get_maintainer?
> 
> Yep.

So strip the leading './' before using it.

Also, if you're looking for unmaintained files,
I think have a script for that too.

> > Then maybe you'd also have to consider fully qualified
> > file names, tilde expansion, $PWD, and probably a bunch
> > of other things too.
> 
> I don't think you'd "have" to consider those as well, but I won't stand
> in your way if you want to...

Half measures aren't generally good enough.

Using a combination of CWnd abs_fast_path and $lk_path
is probably better.  $lkpath is set to './' by default.