re: commit 23cb8490c0d3 ("MAINTAINERS: fix bad file pattern")

[Joe Perches]

   MAINTAINERS: fix bad file pattern
    
    Testing 'parse-maintainers' due to the previous commit shows a bad file
    pattern for the "TI VPE/CAL DRIVERS" entry in the MAINTAINERS file.
    
    There's also a lot of mis-ordered entries, but I'm still a bit nervous
    about the inevitable and annoying merge problems it would probably cause
    to fix them up.
    
    The MAINTAINERS file is one of my least favorite files due to being huge
    and centralized, but fixing it is also horribly painful for that reason.

The identical commit was sent at least twice.
Once directly to you.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11361131/
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20200128145828.74161-1-andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/


About the pain associated to fixing the file:
I think it would be minimally painful to run

$ ./scripts/parse-maintainers.pl --input=MAINTAINERS --output=MAINTAINERS --order

Immediately before an -rc1 is released.

Relatively few of any pending patches to MAINTAINERS
in -next would be impacted and there would be better
consistency in the silly file.