Hi Sebastian, Hi Joe, On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 9:30 AM Duda, Sebastian <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Joe, > > when analyzing the patch > `<[email protected]>` [1] with > `get_maintainers.pl --subsystem --status --separator , /tmp/patch`, > there is the following output: > > Chris Mason <[email protected]> (maintainer:BTRFS FILE SYSTEM),Josef Bacik > <[email protected]> (maintainer:BTRFS FILE SYSTEM),David Sterba > <[email protected]> (maintainer:BTRFS FILE SYSTEM),Alexander Viro > <[email protected]> (maintainer:FILESYSTEMS (VFS and > infrastructure)),"Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]> (maintainer:EXT4 FILE > SYSTEM),Andreas Dilger <[email protected]> (maintainer:EXT4 FILE > SYSTEM),Jaegeuk Kim <[email protected]> (maintainer:F2FS FILE > SYSTEM),Changman Lee <[email protected]> (maintainer:F2FS FILE > SYSTEM),Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> (maintainer:FUSE: FILESYSTEM > IN USERSPACE),Steven Whitehouse <[email protected]> (supporter:GFS2 > FILE SYSTEM),Anton Altaparmakov <[email protected]> (supporter:NTFS > FILESYSTEM),Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> (maintainer:TMPFS (SHMEM > FILESYSTEM)),[email protected] (open list:BTRFS FILE > SYSTEM),[email protected] (open > list),[email protected] (open list:FILESYSTEMS (VFS and > infrastructure)),[email protected] (open list:EXT4 FILE > SYSTEM),[email protected] (open list:F2FS FILE > SYSTEM),[email protected] (open list:FUSE: FILESYSTEM IN > USERSPACE),[email protected] (open list:GFS2 FILE > SYSTEM),[email protected] (open list:NTFS > FILESYSTEM),[email protected] (open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT) > Maintained,Buried alive in reporters,Supported > BTRFS FILE SYSTEM,THE REST,FILESYSTEMS (VFS and infrastructure),EXT4 > FILE SYSTEM,F2FS FILE SYSTEM,FUSE: FILESYSTEM IN USERSPACE,GFS2 FILE > SYSTEM,NTFS FILESYSTEM,MEMORY MANAGEMENT,TMPFS (SHMEM FILESYSTEM) > > How can I parse this output automatically? or how can I generate a > parsable output? > > I need the tuples of subsystems and status: > (THE REST, Buried alive in reporters) > (TMPFS, Maintained) > (BTRFS FILE SYSTEM, Maintained) > … > (GFS2 FILE SYSTEM, Supported) > > I'm not aware how to reliably assign the statuses to the subsystems. >
Joe, I hope this example makes more clear what and how Sebastian would actually like to have the information from the MAINTAINERS file presented for our use case. Currently, we would consider get_maintainer.pl to be the proper place for such a feature in the upstream development. Joe, would you support and would you accept if we extend get_maintainer.pl to provide output of the status in such a way that the status output can be clearly mapped to the subsystem? If so, we would try our best to extend the current script and sent those patches back to lkml for review and inclusion. If you do not support to extend get_maintainer.pl as we suggest, we would probably simply write our own specific script (probably then in python) to parse MAINTAINERS and extract and present the information as we need for our use case. Sebastian, Considering style of mail interaction, please do not use top posting: If you want to answer to a specific point of the previous mail discussion, keep only the relevant part for your answer (delete the rest!) and answer inline. If you start a new discussion and do not refer to any points of the previous discussion very specifically, just delete the whole previous discussion and do not resend the content of previous mails. Best regards, Lukas
