From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932933AbcESWdF (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2016 18:33:05 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0110.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.110]:37475 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932132AbcESWdC (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2016 18:33:02 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:800:960:968:973:982:988:989:1260:1261:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1431:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1542:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2198:2199:2393:2553:2559:2562:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3354:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3873:3874:4321:5007:6298:6742:7652:7903:9010:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11783:11914:12043:12050:12296:12517:12519:12663:12740:13161:13229:13436:13439:13894:14181:14659:14721:21080:30012:30030:30034:30054:30064:30090:30091,0,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:3,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: offer76_199e6a4e76b32 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 3695 Message-ID: <1463697173.14098.46.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: get_maintainer.pl and MAINTAINERS file From: Joe Perches To: Jiri Slaby , Kalle Valo , Robin van der Gracht Cc: Mark Rutland , Pawel Moll , Kumar Gala , "David S . Miller" , Miguel Ojeda Sandonis , Matt Ranostay , Ian Campbell , Jonathan Cameron , Rob Herring , Shawn Guo , Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thierry Reding , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Guenter Roeck , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 15:32:53 -0700 In-Reply-To: <573E19B5.1050800@suse.cz> References: <1463574199-21077-1-git-send-email-robin@protonic.nl> <20160518150924.GA3871@kroah.com> <20160519105418.5df3c8f7@erd979> <871t4yfbmy.fsf_-_@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> <573E19B5.1050800@suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.5.2-0ubuntu1 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 Thu, 2016-05-19 at 21:53 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Cc: joe > > On 05/19/2016, 02:57 PM, Kalle Valo wrote: > > > > (Changed the subject from "Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] auxdisplay: Introduce ht16k33 driver") > > > > Robin van der Gracht writes: > > > > > > > > > > > > > And 4th, what is with the insane number of people on cc:?  Use > > > > get_maintainer.pl correctly please, and don't just hit everyone you > > > > can possibly think of with a cc: for no good reason. > > > I did use the get_maintainer script. I solely passed the patch set as > > > command line argument. > > I think get_maintainer script should ignore MAINTAINERS file altogether. Maybe, maybe not. The list of MAINTAINERS names returned by get_maintainer.pl is: Andrew Morton (commit_signer:39/504=8%) "David S. Miller" (commit_signer:38/504=8%) Greg Kroah-Hartman (commit_signer:36/504=7%) Kalle Valo (commit_signer:28/504=6%) Mauro Carvalho Chehab (added_lines:109/2073=5%,removed_lines:108/779=14%) Guenter Roeck (removed_lines:48/779=6%) Jiri Slaby (removed_lines:46/779=6%) > > After I did drivers/net/wireless reorganisation, and had to make > > numerous changes to MAINTAINERS in the process, I have been CCed to all > > sorts of patchsets to which I have nothing to do with (this one > > included). I suspect get_maintainer.pl is to blame here. Doubtful but possible. I have no idea how many files were modified by whatever patch was checked, but more files, more maintainers. Unmaintained files have even more "not quite maintainers", but get_maintainer.pl lists the names of people that recently modified those specific files. > Last time I even tried to fix this up, but failed due to time > limitations as the code is a bit complex. > > Joe, you seem to be the one who touched the script many times recently. > May we ask you to fix this up? I'm not touching stuff right now.  Maybe next month.