Re: [RESEND PATCH] modpost: don't add a trailing wildcard for OF module aliases

[Javier Martinez Canillas <javier-JPH+aEBZ4P+UEJcrhfAQsw@public.gmane.org>]

Hello Andrew,

On 12/08/2015 08:11 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue,  8 Dec 2015 19:13:32 -0300 Javier Martinez Canillas <javier-JPH+aEBZ4P+UEJcrhfAQsw@public.gmane.org> wrote:

[snip]

>>
>> I sent this patch before [0] but was never picked. MAINTAINERS doesn't
>> say who should manage patches to file2alias so maybe I didn't add the
>> right person to the cc list.
> 
> z:/usr/src/git26> perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f scripts/mod 
> Rusty Russell <rusty-8n+1lVoiYb80n/F98K4Iww@public.gmane.org> (commit_signer:18/27=67%)
>

Yes, I use get_maintainer.pl but usually with the --no-git-fallback since
the --git-fallback option tends to be too noisy and people complain that
are cc'ed on random patches just because they touched a file in the past.

IOW, there is no way to know only by looking at get_maintainer.pl output
if Rusty has only made a lot of changes to that repo or if he acts as a
maintainer (i.e: picks patches and send pull requests).

For these cases, is good to have a proper entry in MAINTAINERS.
 
>> Documentation/development-process/5.Posting says that if there is no
>> obvious maintainer, then Andrew Morton is often the patch target so
>> I'm re-sending to him.
> 
> Yep.  If I don't handle the particular patch, I know who does ;)
>

I see that you picked the patch already, thanks a lot for your help!

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America
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