Re: [PATCH] scripts: checkpatch: steer people away from using file paths

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 10:10:51AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:53:48 +0200 Greg KH wrote:
> > > This script may break people's "scripts on top of get_maintainer"
> > > if they are using -f... but that's the point.  
> > 
> > Ok, I'll go fix up my local scripts,
> 
> Which one? I spotted this in your repo but it already seems
> to use patches:
> 
> https://github.com/gregkh/gregkh-linux/blob/master/scripts/generate_cc_list

Oh yeah, it does work on patches.  Nevermind, I think I just use the -f
version manually when trying to figure out who to blame for a bug report
in a specific file :)

> How do you use this, BTW?

I do:
	- git format-patch to generate the patch series.
	- run the generate_cc_list script which creates XXXX.info files
	  (the XXXX being the patch number) that contain the
	  people/lists to cc: on the patch
	- git rebase -i on the patch series and edit the changelog
	  description and paste in the XXXX.info file for that specific
	  patch.

Yeah, it's a lot of manual steps, I should use b4 for it, one of these
days...

thanks,

greg k-h