The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: additional MAINTAINER section entry ordering checks
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
checkpatch-additional-maintainer-section-entry-ordering-checks.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-additional-maintainer-section-entry-ordering-checks.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-additional-maintainer-section-entry-ordering-checks.patch
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From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: additional MAINTAINER section entry ordering checks
There is a preferred order for the entries in MAINTAINERS sections.
See:
commit 3b50142d8528 ("MAINTAINERS: sort field names for all entries")
and
commit 6680125ea5a2 ("MAINTAINERS: list the section entries in the preferred order")
Add checkpatch tests to try to keep that ordering.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/17677130b3ca62d79817e6a22546bad39d7e81b4.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-additional-maintainer-section-entry-ordering-checks
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3060,14 +3060,43 @@ sub process {
#print "is_start<$is_start> is_end<$is_end> length<$length>\n";
}
-# check for MAINTAINERS entries that don't have the right form
- if ($realfile =~ /^MAINTAINERS$/ &&
- $rawline =~ /^\+[A-Z]:/ &&
- $rawline !~ /^\+[A-Z]:\t\S/) {
- if (WARN("MAINTAINERS_STYLE",
- "MAINTAINERS entries use one tab after TYPE:\n" . $herecurr) &&
- $fix) {
- $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/^(\+[A-Z]):\s*/$1:\t/;
+# check MAINTAINERS entries
+ if ($realfile =~ /^MAINTAINERS$/) {
+# check MAINTAINERS entries for the right form
+ if ($rawline =~ /^\+[A-Z]:/ &&
+ $rawline !~ /^\+[A-Z]:\t\S/) {
+ if (WARN("MAINTAINERS_STYLE",
+ "MAINTAINERS entries use one tab after TYPE:\n" . $herecurr) &&
+ $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/^(\+[A-Z]):\s*/$1:\t/;
+ }
+ }
+# check MAINTAINERS entries for the right ordering too
+ my $preferred_order = 'MRLSWQBCPTFXNK';
+ if ($rawline =~ /^\+[A-Z]:/ &&
+ $prevrawline =~ /^[\+ ][A-Z]:/) {
+ $rawline =~ /^\+([A-Z]):\s*(.*)/;
+ my $cur = $1;
+ my $curval = $2;
+ $prevrawline =~ /^[\+ ]([A-Z]):\s*(.*)/;
+ my $prev = $1;
+ my $prevval = $2;
+ my $curindex = index($preferred_order, $cur);
+ my $previndex = index($preferred_order, $prev);
+ if ($curindex < 0) {
+ WARN("MAINTAINERS_STYLE",
+ "Unknown MAINTAINERS entry type: '$cur'\n" . $herecurr);
+ } else {
+ if ($previndex >= 0 && $curindex < $previndex) {
+ WARN("MAINTAINERS_STYLE",
+ "Misordered MAINTAINERS entry - list '$cur:' before '$prev:'\n" . $hereprev);
+ } elsif ((($prev eq 'F' && $cur eq 'F') ||
+ ($prev eq 'X' && $cur eq 'X')) &&
+ ($prevval cmp $curval) > 0) {
+ WARN("MAINTAINERS_STYLE",
+ "Misordered MAINTAINERS entry - list file patterns in alphabetic order\n" . $hereprev);
+ }
+ }
}
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are
checkpatch-additional-maintainer-section-entry-ordering-checks.patch
