[RFC] scripts/get_maintainer: add emails based on keywords in the patch
Joe Perches
joe at perches.com
Sat Oct 10 06:01:45 EST 2009
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 04:23 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> If this facility is desired by many others, it might be
> better to have a separate file of 'regex generates email'
> read at initialization.
Perhaps it's better to use the existing MAINTAINERS file
and extend it with a new "K:" for keyword entry.
This patch is a bit longer than necessary because the
MAINTAINERS initial descriptions are moved around a bit.
Perhaps something like this:
MAINTAINERS | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 24 +++++++++++----
2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index e1da925..9e1263f 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -65,43 +65,47 @@ trivial patch so apply some common sense.
8. Happy hacking.
- -----------------------------------
-
-Maintainers List (try to look for most precise areas first)
+Descriptions of section entries:
+
+ P: Person (obsolete)
+ M: Mail patches to: FullName <address at domain>
+ L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area
+ W: Web-page with status/info
+ T: SCM tree type and location. Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit.
+ S: Status, one of the following:
+ Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this.
+ Maintained: Someone actually looks after it.
+ Odd Fixes: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
+ much other than throw the odd patch in. See below..
+ Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the
+ role as you write your new code].
+ Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means
+ it has been replaced by a better system and you
+ should be using that.
+ F: Files and directories with wildcard patterns.
+ A trailing slash includes all files and subdirectory files.
+ F: drivers/net/ all files in and below drivers/net
+ F: drivers/net/* all files in drivers/net, but not below
+ F: */net/* all files in "any top level directory"/net
+ One pattern per line. Multiple F: lines acceptable.
+ X: Files and directories that are NOT maintained, same rules as F:
+ Files exclusions are tested before file matches.
+ Can be useful for excluding a specific subdirectory, for instance:
+ F: net/
+ X: net/ipv6/
+ matches all files in and below net excluding net/ipv6/
+ K: Keyword perl regex pattern to match content in patch
+ All patterns are surrounded by "\b"
+ for instance: K: of_get_profile
+ will match patches that contain the word "of_get_profile"
Note: For the hard of thinking, this list is meant to remain in alphabetical
order. If you could add yourselves to it in alphabetical order that would be
so much easier [Ed]
-P: Person (obsolete)
-M: Mail patches to: FullName <address at domain>
-L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area
-W: Web-page with status/info
-T: SCM tree type and location. Type is one of: git, hg, quilt, stgit.
-S: Status, one of the following:
-
- Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this.
- Maintained: Someone actually looks after it.
- Odd Fixes: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
- much other than throw the odd patch in. See below..
- Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the
- role as you write your new code].
- Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means
- it has been replaced by a better system and you
- should be using that.
+Maintainers List (try to look for most precise areas first)
-F: Files and directories with wildcard patterns.
- A trailing slash includes all files and subdirectory files.
- F: drivers/net/ all files in and below drivers/net
- F: drivers/net/* all files in drivers/net, but not below
- F: */net/* all files in "any top level directory"/net
- One pattern per line. Multiple F: lines acceptable.
-X: Files and directories that are NOT maintained, same rules as F:
- Files exclusions are tested before file matches.
- Can be useful for excluding a specific subdirectory, for instance:
- F: net/
- X: net/ipv6/
- matches all files in and below net excluding net/ipv6/
+ -----------------------------------
3C505 NETWORK DRIVER
M: Philip Blundell <philb at gnu.org>
@@ -3876,6 +3880,11 @@ S: Maintained
F: Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-ocores
F: drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ocores.c
+OPEN FIRMWARE DEVICE TREE
+L: devicetree-discuss at lists.ozlabs.org
+S: Odd Fixes
+K: of_get_property
+
OPROFILE
M: Robert Richter <robert.richter at amd.com>
L: oprofile-list at lists.sf.net
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index cdb44b6..657711c 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ if (!top_of_kernel_tree($lk_path)) {
## Read MAINTAINERS for type/value pairs
my @typevalue = ();
+my %keyword_hash;
+
open(MAINT, "<${lk_path}MAINTAINERS") || die "$P: Can't open MAINTAINERS\n";
while (<MAINT>) {
my $line = $_;
@@ -149,6 +151,8 @@ while (<MAINT>) {
if ((-d $value)) {
$value =~ s@([^/])$@$1/@;
}
+ } elsif ($type eq "K") {
+ $keyword_hash{@typevalue} = $value;
}
push(@typevalue, "$type:$value");
} elsif (!/^(\s)*$/) {
@@ -188,6 +192,12 @@ if ($email_remove_duplicates) {
my @files = ();
my @range = ();
+my @email_to = ();
+my @list_to = ();
+my @scm = ();
+my @web = ();
+my @subsystem = ();
+my @status = ();
foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
##if $file is a directory and it lacks a trailing slash, add one
@@ -203,6 +213,7 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
my $lastfile;
open(PATCH, "<$file") or die "$P: Can't open ${file}\n";
while (<PATCH>) {
+ my $patch_line = $_;
if (m/^\+\+\+\s+(\S+)/) {
my $filename = $1;
$filename =~ s@^[^/]*/@@;
@@ -213,6 +224,12 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
if ($email_git_blame) {
push(@range, "$lastfile:$1:$2");
}
+ } else {
+ foreach my $line (keys %keyword_hash) {
+ if ($patch_line =~ m/^[+-].*\b$keyword_hash{$line}\b/o) {
+ add_categories($line);
+ }
+ }
}
}
close(PATCH);
@@ -224,13 +241,6 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
}
}
-my @email_to = ();
-my @list_to = ();
-my @scm = ();
-my @web = ();
-my @subsystem = ();
-my @status = ();
-
# Find responsible parties
foreach my $file (@files) {
--
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