From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pd0-f179.google.com (mail-pd0-f179.google.com [209.85.192.179]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E5F6B00BA for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:12:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pd0-f179.google.com with SMTP id y10so480319pdj.24 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:12:15 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [bug] get_maintainer.pl incomplete output Message-Id: <20131017121215.826ab6cced73118f3dba8d4f@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: Joe Perches , Anton Vorontsov , Michal Hocko , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:51:18 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes wrote: > I haven't looked closely at scripts/get_maintainer.pl, but I recently > wrote a patch touching mm/vmpressure.c and it doesn't list the file's > author, Anton Vorontsov . > > Even when I do scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f mm/vmpressure.c, his entry is > missing and git blame attributs >90% of the lines to his authorship. > > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f mm/vmpressure.c > Tejun Heo (commit_signer:6/7=86%) > Michal Hocko (commit_signer:5/7=71%) > Andrew Morton (commit_signer:4/7=57%) > Li Zefan (commit_signer:3/7=43%) > "Kirill A. Shutemov" (commit_signer:1/7=14%) > linux-mm@kvack.org (open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT) > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list) get_maintainer should, by default, answer the question "who should I email about this file". It clearly isn't doing this, and that's a pretty big fail. I've learned not to trust it, so when I use it I always have to check its homework with "git log | grep Author" :( Joe, pretty please? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org