commit a63ceb4c36a7674f7efa90e8ba96b44a3989d717
author Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Fri Mar 05 13:43:06 2010 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Sat Mar 06 11:26:34 2010 -0800
tree eefb1f82565ddaa2e5129341accc490ad4a2e5f9
parent 22dd5b0cba50a197aaa3bd2790a29ee2e8e4e372

get_maintainer: quote email address with period

Picky mail systems won't accept email addresses where recipient has period
in name; ie.  David S.  Miller <davemloft.net> will not work.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

scripts/get_maintainer.pl

diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 9bb0941..b61002d 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@
     $name =~ s/^\"|\"$//g;
     $address =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
 
-    if ($name =~ /[^a-z0-9 \.\-]/i) {    ##has "must quote" chars
+    if ($name =~ /[^\w \-]/i) {  	 ##has "must quote" chars
 	$name =~ s/(?<!\\)"/\\"/g;       ##escape quotes
 	$name = "\"$name\"";
     }
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@
     $name =~ s/^\"|\"$//g;
     $address =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
 
-    if ($name =~ /[^a-z0-9 \.\-]/i) {    ##has "must quote" chars
+    if ($name =~ /[^\w \-]/i) {          ##has "must quote" chars
 	$name =~ s/(?<!\\)"/\\"/g;       ##escape quotes
 	$name = "\"$name\"";
     }