Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] MAINTAINERS: fix lots of alphabetic ordering

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 18:05 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 17:08 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >  (b) we could split this thing up some sane way.
> > 
> > Anybody got any ideas?
[]
> Just for ease of manipulation and not breaking the script much,
> I'd suggest just having a MAINTAINERS directory and stuffing
> each of the sections into separate files.
> 
> The script would only need to add $ cat MAINTAINERS/* as input.

Maybe something like the script below to break up the MAINTAINERS file
into separate files.  It also uses underscores for spaces in the
section header -> filename translation.

This seems to work OK except for this single section which doesn't
follow the normal single line section header style.

EDAC-XGENE
APPLIED MICRO (APM) X-GENE SOC EDAC
M:     Loc Ho <lho@xxxxxxx>
S:     Supported
F:     drivers/edac/xgene_edac.c
F:     Documentation/devicetree/bindings/edac/apm-xgene-edac.txt

That one would need manual fixup.

---
$ cat separate_MAINTAINERS.bash
mkdir MAINTAINERS.tmp

sed -n '3,122p' MAINTAINERS > MAINTAINERS.tmp/00-README

sed -n '131,500000p' MAINTAINERS | while read line; do
    if [[ ! "$line" =~ ^[A-Z0-9a-z][A-Z0-9a-z\.\-] ]]; then
	echo "bad line: $line"
	continue
    fi
    file=MAINTAINERS.tmp/$(echo -n $line |
			       sed -r -e 's/\s+/_/g' -e 's@/@-@g' -e 's/_-_/-/' -e 's/:*$//')
    echo "$line" > $file
    while read line; do
	if [[ ! $line =~ ^[A-Z]: ]]; then
	    break
	fi
	echo "$line" >> $file
    done
done
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