Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Append parenthesis back to trimmed subsystem name

[Kai-Heng Feng]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 12:22 AM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2021-08-05 at 00:09 +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> > When a closing parenthesis gets trimmed, there can be unmatched
> > parenthesis in the subsystem name. This doesn't play well with
> > git-send-email:
> > (cc-cmd) Adding cc: intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list:INTEL DRM DRIVERS (excluding Poulsbo, Moorestow...) from: 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl'
> > Unmatched () '(open list:INTEL DRM DRIVERS (excluding Poulsbo, Moorestow...)' '' at /usr/lib/git-core/git-send-email line 554.
> > error: unable to extract a valid address from: intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list:INTEL DRM DRIVERS (excluding Poulsbo, Moorestow...)
> >
> > So append parenthesis back if it was trimmed to make git-send-email
> > work again:
> > (cc-cmd) Adding cc: intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list:INTEL DRM DRIVERS (excluding Poulsbo, Mooresto...)) from: 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl'
>
> Probably better just to add --norolestats to the invoking command-line.

This can solve the issue beautifully, thanks!

>
> > diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> []
> > @@ -1252,9 +1252,10 @@ sub get_subsystem_name {
> >
> >
> >      my $subsystem = $typevalue[$start];
> >      if ($output_section_maxlen && length($subsystem) > $output_section_maxlen) {
> > -     $subsystem = substr($subsystem, 0, $output_section_maxlen - 3);
> > +     my $parenthesis = substr($subsystem, -1) eq ")";
> > +     $subsystem = substr($subsystem, 0, $output_section_maxlen - ($parenthesis ? 4 : 3));
> >       $subsystem =~ s/\s*$//;
> > -     $subsystem = $subsystem . "...";
> > +     $subsystem = $subsystem . "..." . ($parenthesis ? ")" : "");
>
> Given an $output_section_maxlen number of possible parentheses, this should
> probably use a while...

Or maybe count the parentheses in two runs?

diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 2075db0c08b8e..08315074acffa 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -1252,9 +1252,21 @@ sub get_subsystem_name {

     my $subsystem = $typevalue[$start];
     if ($output_section_maxlen && length($subsystem) >
$output_section_maxlen) {
+       my $need_closing = 0;
        $subsystem = substr($subsystem, 0, $output_section_maxlen - 3);
        $subsystem =~ s/\s*$//;
-       $subsystem = $subsystem . "...";
+
+       if (substr($subsystem, -1) eq "(") {
+           $subsystem = substr($subsystem, 0, -2);
+       } else {
+           my $opening = () = $subsystem =~ /\(/g;
+           my $closing = () = $subsystem =~ /\)/g;
+           if ($opening != $closing) {
+               $need_closing = 1;
+           }
+       }
+
+       $subsystem = $subsystem . "..." . ($need_closing ? ")" : "");
     }
     return $subsystem;

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