[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] Documentation: MAINTAINERS: add information about parse-maintainers.pl

Aditya Srivastava yashsri421 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 10:12:54 UTC 2020


parse-maintainers.pl is a script which can be used to automatically
order the contents of MAINTAINERS file in preferred order (i.e.
'MRLSWQBCPTFXNK').

But currently we don't have a documentation on it.

Add documentation regarding the same in MAINTAINERS file.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421 at gmail.com>
---
the patch applies perfectly on latest next-20201119

 MAINTAINERS | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 5db753fa1295..7ad00af7acd4 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -136,6 +136,9 @@ Descriptions of section entries and preferred order
 	      printk, pr_info or pr_err
 	   One regex pattern per line.  Multiple K: lines acceptable.
 
+This order can be generated automatically for you using
+``scripts/parse-maintainers.pl``.
+
 Maintainers List
 ----------------
 
-- 
2.17.1



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