Re: get_maintainer.pl and arch/arm64/configs/defconfig (was Re: [PATCH] arm64: defconfig: remove SLIM_QCOM_CTRL )

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 29/12/2025 08:34, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 04:30:04PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 23/12/2025 16:27, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 23/12/2025 15:36, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I sent to addresses reported by get_maintainers.pl.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is no output of get_maintainers.pl for this file. It's one of
>>>>> cases where script does not work (I think already documented in
>>>>> maintainer soc profile).

I wrote it here - script does not work.

>>>>
>>>> Sorry, I don't get it. This issue is a generic one since now arm64 defconfig
>>>> has one unknown option. Tools which check kernel config for unknown options
>>>> trigger warnings when arm64 defconfig is used.
>>>>
>>>> If get_maintainers.pl is broken for this file, then please fix it. I don't
>>>> know how to fix it.
>>>
>>> No one knows, partially because it is very, very difficult task, that's
>>> the problem.
>>
>> Ah, wait, it was fixed already! You just run get_maintainers incorrectly
>> - You cannot use git fallback here, it's pointless. You could have read
>> the get_maintainers.pl output.
> 
> Could you mention what is the correct way to run get_maintainer.pl then?
> 
> I don't contribute patches to kernel on a regular basis so of course
> I can make a lot of mistakes but I tried to do the right thing:
> 
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl arch/arm64/configs/defconfig 

Just like I mentioned already - you cannot use git fallback, thus you
miss --no-git-fallback.

> Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> (commit_signer:27/70=39%,authored:4/70=6%,added_lines:13/116=11%,removed_lines:7/43=16%)
> Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@oss.qualcomm.com> (commit_signer:14/70=20%)
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> (commit_signer:13/70=19%)
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> (commit_signer:10/70=14%)
> Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> (commit_signer:8/70=11%)
> Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> (authored:5/70=7%,removed_lines:5/43=12%)
> "André Draszik" <andre.draszik@linaro.org> (authored:4/70=6%)
> "Nícolas F. R. A. Prado" <nfraprado@collabora.com> (added_lines:9/116=8%)
> Andrea della Porta <andrea.porta@suse.com> (added_lines:6/116=5%)
> Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com> (added_lines:6/116=5%)
> Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@foss.st.com> (added_lines:6/116=5%)
> Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> (removed_lines:23/43=53%)
> Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> (removed_lines:3/43=7%)

And by reading this output you would notice - no single maintainer.

> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
> 
> and collect the emails from this output and fed them to git send-email.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -Mikko


Best regards,
Krzysztof