linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Sort entries using parse-maintainers.pl

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Date:   Sat, 04 Dec 2021 14:34:36 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Sort entries using parse-maintainers.pl

On Sat, 2021-12-04 at 20:48 +0100, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 10:20:24AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Sat, 2021-12-04 at 18:52 +0100, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:
> > > The MAINTAINERS file got slightly out of order again, making it
> > > difficult to put new entries at the right (alphabetical) position.
> > > 
> > > Run parse-maintainers.pl to restore the alphabetical order.
> > []
> > > Checkpatch warns about a few unordered "F:" lines within sections, but I
> > > left those alone because I wanted this patch to be as automated as possible.
> > 
> > The --order option does that.
> > 
> > $ ./scripts/parse-maintainers.pl --order --output MAINTAINERS
> 
> Ah, good point.
> 
> Unfortunately, the result of parse-maintainers.pl --order currently
> produces a (small) merge conflict when merged/cherry-picked on top of
> -next, so it might be better to start without --order. (Not sure.)

My preference is still to automate the running of this command
by some script and apply it just before every -rc1 is released.