From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932369AbcAHRrO (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 12:47:14 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0174.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.174]:46566 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932223AbcAHRrL (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 12:47:11 -0500 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::,RULES_HIT:41:305:355:379:541:599:973:982:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2553:2559:2562:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3352:3622:3653:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3872:3873:3874:4321:4399:5007:6117:6261:7903:10004:10400:10450:10455:10848:11026:11232:11658:11783:11914:12043:12296:12517:12519:12740:13069:13073:13311:13357:13894:14659:19904:19999:21080:21324:30030:30054:30064:30090:30091,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:1,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: cast11_2151401045c5f X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1879 Message-ID: <1452275227.4028.76.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [patch] get_maintainer: handle file names beginning with ./ From: Joe Perches To: Dan Carpenter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 09:47:07 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20160108134402.GD5177@mwanda> References: <20160108105155.GB32195@mwanda> <1452253076.4028.64.camel@perches.com> <20160108134402.GD5177@mwanda> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.3-1ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 16:44 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 03:37:56AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 13:51 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > The problem is that get_maintainer.pl doesn't work if you have a ./ > > > prefix on the filename.  For example, if you type: > > > > > >     ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f ./drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c > > > > Someone's been feeding find output to get_maintainer? > > Yep. So strip the leading './' before using it. Also, if you're looking for unmaintained files, I think have a script for that too. > > Then maybe you'd also have to consider fully qualified > > file names, tilde expansion, $PWD, and probably a bunch > > of other things too. > > I don't think you'd "have" to consider those as well, but I won't stand > in your way if you want to... Half measures aren't generally good enough. Using a combination of CWnd abs_fast_path and $lk_path is probably better.  $lkpath is set to './' by default.