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 <[email protected]> Acked-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
franciscofranco · Mar 6, 2010 · a63ceb4 · a63ceb4
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commit a63ceb4
Showing 1 changed file with 2 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ sub parse_email {
     $name =~ s/^\"|\"$//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 @@ sub format_email {
     $name =~ s/^\"|\"$//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\"";
     }