Re: [PATCH for-4.5] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: Correctly CC the maintainers

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 16:43 +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 11/20/2014 04:29 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> Forgot to add, the example above show the difference without and with
> >> the patch. The list is correct because both ARM and x86 maintainers
> >> should be CC. Because of this all "THE REST" maintainers are added.
> > 
> > Just to be clear, you mean that everyone under THE REST is added solely
> > because they also happen to be maintainers of some other relevant bit of
> > code, not that THE REST is explicitly added in this case, right?
> 
> Yes, my description was confusing. With setting $email_remove_duplicates
> to 0, the script will:
>    1) Append the list of maintainers for every file
>    2) Filter the list to remove the entry with "THE REST" role
>    3) Remove duplicated address
> 
> The previous behavior was:
>    1) Get the list of maintainers of the file (incidentally all the
> maintainers in "THE REST" role are added). If the email address already
> exists in the global list, skip it.
>    2) Filter the list to remove the entry with "THE REST" role
> 
> So if a maintainers is marked on the "THE REST" on the first file and
> actually be an x86 maintainers on the second file, the scripts will only
> retain the "THE REST" role.
> 
> If it's more clear, I can add the explanation above in the commit message.

It is, please do.

Ian.