Re: [PATCH] firmware/google: drop 'select EFI' to avoid recursive dependency

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 14:45 -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig
> > > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
> > > 
> > > I wonder why he's not listed as a recipient for patches from 
> > > get_maintainer.pl since it's clearly obvious he wrote the entire file.
> > 
> > I do wish get_maintainer was better about this.  You can apparently
> > make it dtrt with funky arguments, but --git-since and --git aren't
> > working for me.

Or use --interactive to figure out what's what when it
doesn't give you an answer you like.

> > 
> > get_maintainer's default output should answer the question "who do I
> > email about this file", and that ain't working :(

Complaints cheerfully ignored.
Suggestions gratefully accepted.

Files that haven't had changes in a long time
generally aren't maintained.

Old addresses frequently become stale and bounce.

It'd be better if there was a MAINTAINERS entry
for drivers/firmware/google.

Far be it for me to volunteer someone to be a
maintainer though.

Something like:
---
 MAINTAINERS | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 5c5d554..f4271d5 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3802,6 +3802,11 @@ F:	Documentation/isdn/README.gigaset
 F:	drivers/isdn/gigaset/
 F:	include/uapi/linux/gigaset_dev.h
 
+GOOGLE MEMORY CONSOLE
+M:     Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
+S:     Supported
+F:     drivers/firmware/google/
+
 GPIO SUBSYSTEM
 M:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
 M:	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>

> > 
> 
> I also think it would be great if get_maintainer's output was friendlier 
> so that I can just copy a comma-separated line of "name <email>, name2 
> <email2>" into my email client.

That's what it was, then people complained about not knowing
what the people did to the particular files being modified
and the default became --rolestats.

You can get that comma separated list by adding
--norolestats --nomultiline