get_maintainer: remove stray punctuation when cleaning file emails
When parsing emails from .yaml files in particular, stray punctuation
such as a leading '-' can end up in the name. For example, consider a
common YAML section such as:
maintainers:
- devicetree@vger.kernel.org
This would previously be processed by get_maintainer.pl as:
- <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
Make the logic in clean_file_emails more robust by deleting any
sub-names which consist of common single punctuation marks before
proceeding to the best-effort name extraction logic. The output is then
correct:
devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Some additional comments are added to the function to make things
clearer to future readers.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0173e76a36b3a9b4e7f324dd3a36fd4a9757f302.camel@perches.com/
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Alvin Šipraga <alsi@bang-olufsen.dk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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