Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default

Mark Brown
2010-09-10T09:53:12Z

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:42:47AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:

> As the coverage of file patterns in MAINTAINERS is
> now pretty good, the --git results are less useful.

It's pretty good for subsystems and PC drivers but for embedded stuff it
is much more patchy and fairly unlikely to find someone who actually
knows about the specific hardware.

> I'd much rather turn off --git as a default, or change
> get_maintainers to add git signers only when there's no
> specifically listed maintainer for a particular file.

OTOH I'd still be somewhat in favour of this purely on the basis that
the default results have way too many false positives.