Re: [PATCH 0/2] docs: Programmatically render MAINTAINERS into ReST

[Kees Cook]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 08:31:47AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On a separate note...it occurred to me, rather belatedly as usual, that
> last time we discussed doing this that there was some opposition to adding
> a second MAINTAINERS parser to the kernel; future changes to the format of
> that file may force both to be adjusted, and somebody will invariably
> forget one.  Addressing that, if we feel a need to do so, probably requires
> tweaking get_maintainer.pl to output the information in a useful format.

That's a reasonable point, but I would make two observations:

- get_maintainers.pl is written in Perl and I really don't want to write
  more Perl. ;)

- the parsing methods in get_maintainers is much more focused on the
  file/pattern matching and is blind to the structure of the rest
  of the document (it only examines '^[A-Z]:' and blank lines), and
  does so "on demand", in that it hunts through the entire MAINTAINERS
  file contents for each path match.

So I don't think it's suitable to merge functionality here...

-- 
Kees Cook