From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755477AbcETNOa (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2016 09:14:30 -0400 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:58650 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752769AbcETNO3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2016 09:14:29 -0400 From: Kalle Valo To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Richard Weinberger , Robin van der Gracht , Greg Kroah-Hartman , LKML , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , Miguel Ojeda Sandonis , Thierry Reding , Shawn Guo , Jonathan Cameron , Matt Ranostay , Andrew Morton , "David S . Miller" , Guenter Roeck , Jiri Slaby , "devicetree\@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: get_maintainer.pl and MAINTAINERS file References: <1463574199-21077-1-git-send-email-robin@protonic.nl> <20160518150924.GA3871@kroah.com> <20160519105418.5df3c8f7@erd979> <871t4yfbmy.fsf_-_@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> <20160519135743.5fc661c4@recife.lan> Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 16:14:19 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20160519135743.5fc661c4@recife.lan> (Mauro Carvalho Chehab's message of "Thu, 19 May 2016 13:57:43 -0300") Message-ID: <87a8jkdg7o.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mauro Carvalho Chehab writes: > Em Thu, 19 May 2016 16:25:45 +0200 > Richard Weinberger escreveu: > >> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:57 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. >> > 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. >> >> Are you sure it is because you are listed as maintainer for specific files? >> If you are maintain something you have to be CC'ed. IIRC I have received patches about i2c and graphics stuff and I have no recollection of ever sending even a single patch to those subsystems, let alone maintaining them. >> It is rather because get_maintainer.pl tries to be smart and uses git to >> find people who have touched a file... >> >> I guess instead you want something like: >> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.head/538561 > > I guess what Kalle said is that the get_maintainer.pl script should > disable, by default, "--git-blame" behavior for some specific files that > everyone touches like /MAINTAINERS, Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, > /CREDITS, etc, as random people that touch on those files aren't really > interested on being c/c to every change there. Exactly my point, thank you. No need to pollute people's inboxes unnecessary. -- Kalle Valo