Re: [Question] get_maintainer:

[Manuel Ebner]

On Mon, 2026-06-08 at 10:15 +0200, Manuel Ebner wrote:
> I'm preparing a patch for get_maintainer. While testing I found out that
> the order of the output can change for the same input - see below. That's
> without any change to get_maintainer.pl. (state of 09d8b39563e84fc245 ).
> It seems that the alternating execution of get_maintainer and
> get_maintainer_patched triggers the glitch. Even if both files are the same.
> I can't figure out what's the root cause. I think I change the state of the
> script or it's surroundings somehow, but I can't figure out where.
> 
> Any Ideas?

I figured it out myself. It's explained here:
 https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/13/789

Sorry for the noise.
 Manuel