linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Remove uses of P: for maintainer name

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Message-ID: <973a8964e7d8b8a98ec34c4efa8e2726cd88013a.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 05 Feb 2020 22:47:32 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Remove uses of P: for maintainer name

On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 20:14 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 7:23 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > commit 1ca84ed6425f ("MAINTAINERS: Reclaim the P: tag for
> > Maintainer Entry Profile") changed the use of the "P:" tag
> > from "Person" to "Profile (ie: special subsystem coding styles
> > and characteristics)"
> > 
> > Change how get_maintainer.pl parses the "P:" tag to match.
> 
> Looks ok to me:
> 
> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.william@...el.com>
> 
> ...although I was not able to trigger any unexpected results running
> against drivers/nvdimm/.

Because there aren't any entries like

P:	First Last
M:	maintainer@...ain.tld

where the name was a P: entry and the
email address was on the next line.

That was the form before 2009, but there
were still a few entries until you changed
them recently.

A long time ago:

commit 8b58be884a9fd650abb7f7adf3f885fb9cecd79d
Author: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date:   Wed Jul 29 15:04:30 2009 -0700

    MAINTAINERS: coalesce name and email address lines
    
    Switch the MAINTAINERS email address format from
    
    P:      Linus Torvalds
    M:      torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
    
    to
    
    M:      Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>