From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751889Ab0IJJxM (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:53:12 -0400 Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk ([80.68.93.111]:40316 "EHLO cassiel.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751514Ab0IJJxL (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:53:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:53:00 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Joe Perches Cc: florian@mickler.org, Andrew Morton , "Stephen Hemminger (role:commit_signer)" , "Wolfram Sang (role:commit_signer)" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default Message-ID: <20100910095259.GC23903@sirena.org.uk> References: <1284111212-10659-1-git-send-email-florian@mickler.org> <1284111767.1783.35.camel@Joe-Laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1284111767.1783.35.camel@Joe-Laptop> X-Cookie: Here there be tygers. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cassiel.sirena.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:42:47AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > As the coverage of file patterns in MAINTAINERS is > now pretty good, the --git results are less useful. It's pretty good for subsystems and PC drivers but for embedded stuff it is much more patchy and fairly unlikely to find someone who actually knows about the specific hardware. > I'd much rather turn off --git as a default, or change > get_maintainers to add git signers only when there's no > specifically listed maintainer for a particular file. OTOH I'd still be somewhat in favour of this purely on the basis that the default results have way too many false positives.