Re: .mailmap support for removals (was Re: [PATCH 00/10] scsi: Replace {v}snprintf() variants with safer alternatives)

Joe Perches
2024-02-10T22:56:34Z

On Fri, 2024-02-09 at 22:56 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 05:49:12PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Feb 2024, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> >
> > > On 2/8/24 00:44, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > > Cc: Andre Hedrick <andre@suse.com>
> > >
> > > Please take a look at https://lwn.net/Articles/508222/.
> >
> > get_maintainer.pl pulled it from here:
> >
> > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c#L11
>
> Oh. Hm. It seems "git check-mailmap" (and get_maintainers.pl) don't
> support a way to remove an email address -- only redirect it.
>
> It seems we may want to support "don't use this email address" for more
> than just the currently observed rationale. I don't have any good
> suggestions for what the format should look like? Perhaps:
>
> "" <address-to-remove@example.com>

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