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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 9bb094138dd8..b61002dceaba 100755
--- 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\"";
     }