Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Remove uses of P: for maintainer name

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 20:14 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 7:23 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > commit 1ca84ed6425f ("MAINTAINERS: Reclaim the P: tag for
> > Maintainer Entry Profile") changed the use of the "P:" tag
> > from "Person" to "Profile (ie: special subsystem coding styles
> > and characteristics)"
> > 
> > Change how get_maintainer.pl parses the "P:" tag to match.
> 
> Looks ok to me:
> 
> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.william@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ...although I was not able to trigger any unexpected results running
> against drivers/nvdimm/.

Because there aren't any entries like

P:	First Last
M:	maintainer@xxxxxxxxxx

where the name was a P: entry and the
email address was on the next line.

That was the form before 2009, but there
were still a few entries until you changed
them recently.

A long time ago:

commit 8b58be884a9fd650abb7f7adf3f885fb9cecd79d
Author: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Jul 29 15:04:30 2009 -0700

    MAINTAINERS: coalesce name and email address lines
    
    Switch the MAINTAINERS email address format from
    
    P:      Linus Torvalds
    M:      torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    
    to
    
    M:      Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>