linux-kernel - Re: get_maintainer broken for a few entries in MAINTAINERS

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Message-ID: <1a559a83d3519a849eb93ade955d90c1c19af884.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Mon, 08 May 2023 01:13:30 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: get_maintainer broken for a few entries in MAINTAINERS

On Mon, 2023-05-08 at 09:47 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> on v6.3 and v6.4-rc1 I experience:
> 
> 	$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda
> 	"James (Qian) Wang" <james.qian.wang@....com> (supporter:ARM KOMEDA DRM-KMS DRIVER)
> 	Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@....com> (supporter:ARM KOMEDA DRM-KMS DRIVER)
> 	Mihail Atanassov <mihail.atanassov@....com> (supporter:ARM KOMEDA DRM-KMS DRIVER)
> 	Brian Starkey <brian.starkey@....com> (supporter:ARM MALI-DP DRM DRIVER)
> 	David Airlie <airlied@...il.com> (maintainer:DRM DRIVERS)
> 	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch> (maintainer:DRM DRIVERS)
> 	 (open list:ARM KOMEDA DRM-KMS DRIVER)
> 	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org (open list:DRM DRIVERS)
> 	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
> 
> The 7th entry is broken. I didn't try to debug that in the script. Doing
> 
> -L:     Mali DP Maintainers <malidp@...s.arm.com>
> +L:     malidp@...s.arm.com
> 
> (twice) in MAINTAINTERS fixes the output.

More like the entries in MAINTAINERS are broken.
L: entries should not have "names".

I suggest sending a patch to MAINTAINERS to remove the "names"
or change the non-conforming entries to "M:"

$ git grep -h "^L:" MAINTAINERS | \
  grep -v -P "^L:\s+[\w\_\.-]+@[\w_-]+\.\w+"
L:	Mali DP Maintainers <malidp@...s.arm.com>
L:	Mali DP Maintainers <malidp@...s.arm.com>
L:	The AWS Nitro Enclaves Team <aws-nitro-enclaves-devel@...zon.com>