I ran into two issues while using the script:
1. When I use the script the trivial way
$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl --subsystem --status --separator ,
drivers/media/i2c/adv748x/
Kieran Bingham <kieran.bing...@ideasonboard.com>
(maintainer:ANALOG
DEVICES INC ADV748X DRIVER),Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@kernel.org>
(maintainer:MEDIA INPUT INFRASTRUCTURE
(V4L/DVB)),linux-me...@vger.kernel.org (open list:ANALOG DEVICES INC
ADV748X DRIVER),linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Maintained,Buried alive in reporters
ANALOG DEVICES INC ADV748X DRIVER,MEDIA INPUT INFRASTRUCTURE
(V4L/DVB),THE REST
the output is hard to parse because the status `Maintained` is
displayed
only once but related to two subsystems.
I'd prefer a more table like representation, like this:
Kieran Bingham <kieran.bing...@ideasonboard.com>
(maintainer:ANALOG
DEVICES INC ADV748X DRIVER),linux-me...@vger.kernel.org (open
list:ANALOG DEVICES INC ADV748X DRIVER),ANALOG DEVICES INC ADV748X
DRIVER,Maintained
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@kernel.org> (maintainer:MEDIA
INPUT
INFRASTRUCTURE (V4L/DVB)),MEDIA INPUT INFRASTRUCTURE
(V4L/DVB),Maintained
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list),THE REST,Buried alive in
reporters
2. I want to analyze multiple patches, currently I am calling the
script
once per patch. When calling the script with multiple files the files
output is merged
$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl --subsystem --status --separator ','
drivers/media/i2c/adv748x/ include/uapi/linux/wmi.h
Kieran Bingham <kieran.bing...@ideasonboard.com>
(maintainer:ANALOG
DEVICES INC ADV748X DRIVER),Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@kernel.org>
(maintainer:MEDIA INPUT INFRASTRUCTURE
(V4L/DVB)),linux-me...@vger.kernel.org (open list:ANALOG DEVICES INC
ADV748X DRIVER),linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open
list),platform-driver-...@vger.kernel.org (open list:ACPI WMI DRIVER)
Maintained,Buried alive in reporters,Orphan
ANALOG DEVICES INC ADV748X DRIVER,MEDIA INPUT INFRASTRUCTURE
(V4L/DVB),THE REST,ACPI WMI DRIVER
I'd like to run the script with all files but separated output, like
this:
$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl --subsystem --status --separator ','
--separate-files drivers/media/i2c/adv748x/ include/uapi/linux/wmi.h
Kieran Bingham <kieran.bing...@ideasonboard.com>
(maintainer:ANALOG
DEVICES INC ADV748X DRIVER),Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@kernel.org>
(maintainer:MEDIA INPUT INFRASTRUCTURE
(V4L/DVB)),linux-me...@vger.kernel.org (open list:ANALOG DEVICES INC
ADV748X DRIVER),linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Maintained,Buried alive in reporters
ANALOG DEVICES INC ADV748X DRIVER,MEDIA INPUT INFRASTRUCTURE
(V4L/DVB),THE REST
platform-driver-...@vger.kernel.org (open list:ACPI WMI
DRIVER),linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Orphan,Buried alive in reporters
ACPI WMI DRIVER,THE REST
My Questions are:
1. How can I make get_maintainer's output to be more table-like?