From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (lindbergh.monkeyblade.net [23.128.96.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1BBD31AA61 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:51:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0010.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.10]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C41CBDA; Wed, 26 Jul 2023 09:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omf16.hostedemail.com (a10.router.float.18 [10.200.18.1]) by unirelay08.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E092140213; Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf16.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 1198820013; Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:51:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: get_maintainer: steer people away from using file paths From: Joe Perches To: Linus Torvalds , Jakub Kicinski Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski , geert@linux-m68k.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org, mario.limonciello@amd.com Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 09:51:28 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <20230726151515.1650519-1-kuba@kernel.org> <11ec5b3819ff17c7013348b766eab571eee5ca96.camel@perches.com> <20230726092312.799503d6@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.48.4 (3.48.4-1.fc38) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 1198820013 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_SPF_HELO, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_NONE,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout06 X-Stat-Signature: 8xoc1pa17ewpfstimn3bausji9z3cea9 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX188wytRJcomDW0C9fGvXQuLbDZ88wVSRlo= X-HE-Tag: 1690390288-95582 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX1/WBFHFsnVkAh3pxIZDJRgtHT5ulI26muZfxzFGDdatyakLeRidqhbVyrBUvzvOcM7I2tdGEhyapEXxJLy711Uy2U6E/M8Hm/c/z3MZSBLhzriU7/9Qzie0HnPatecQDSKyokCOYWasQe5UqFr+Rfdgzfuc9iG7Dnn5e0xyLlTlLCYG2TPpN5tiUnon4KUTqIl4DSbOS+ofCKPU9LaqIO2KuDYpwmOhxevpTAjhhkn7kMavNc3G5J4lyOUeDu/JLb6zeU8COP8cOaxg/oc960weNgjtZxIJ92dlV95XbCCa6YRu0MvB//Mc X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on lindbergh.monkeyblade.net On Wed, 2023-07-26 at 09:45 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So the whole "use of get_maintainers is only for patches, and we > should warn about file paths" is insane. Agree.