Re: [PATCH 0/4] Adding support to load secure firmware for HS devices

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 11:52:47AM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 08:48:54PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 10:45:41AM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 07:35:55PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 10:21:45AM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 07:12:09PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 08:59:17PM +0530, Kumar, Udit wrote:
> > > > > > > On 5/21/2024 7:59 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 04:26:44PM +0530, Udit Kumar wrote:

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> > > > > > > > Are you Cc'ing random people with this?
> > > > > > > > Please don't do it.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I used names names popped up while running get_maintainer.pl script of
> > > > > > > u-boot
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > your email id was there for patch-3 of this series
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Nice, the tool is broken. Please, work with the respective people to fix a tool
> > > > > > or to tune it to avoid such mistakes in the future.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > (Hint: I would first disable Git fallback completely)
> > > > > 
> > > > > So you were cc'd thanks to:
> > > > > commit 5e541a05f70296dbad07fc1f4e8678ad207bb476
> > > > > Author: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> > > > > Date:   Sun Jul 30 21:01:45 2023 -0600
> > > > > 
> > > > >     env: Use include/env for text-environment includes
> > > > >     
> > > > >     The 'environment' word is too long. We mostly use 'env' in U-Boot, so use
> > > > >     that as the name of the include directory too.
> > > > >     
> > > > >     Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> > > > >     Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> # Intel Edison
> > > > 
> > > > Yeah, and it even explicitly stated what I reviewed from that code...
> > > > 
> > > > >     Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
> > > > > 
> > > > > And, I'm sorry because there are other contributors who get upset when git
> > > > > fallback doesn't find them (because it also ages out after a year).
> > > > > In this case there's not even a "tweak the threshold" option since
> > > > > there's only a single commit to the file so you're in 100% of them.
> > > > 
> > > > Just an example of false positive by get_maintainer.pl :-(
> > > > And a confirmation of what I said — tool is broken.
> > > 
> > > It's an imperfect tool, yes. A quick check shows that if you never want
> > > to be cc'd from a git tag, you can add yourself to
> > > .get_maintainer.ignore and you will still be matched for things you have
> > > an explicit MAINTAINER entry for.
> > 
> > But this will kill me being a maintainer of U-Boot parts (regarding to
> > a certain platform) which is not what I want.
> 
> With a quick local test, no, it still reported you for edison stuff
> since that's not where the ignore list comes in.

I see. Still looking at the rate of false positives so far from U-Boot project
I don't see that a big hammer, like the proposed one, should be used. Better to
teach people on how to use/tune the tool, it will be helpful in a long-term.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko