From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754948AbZLION4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:13:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754587AbZLIONz (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:13:55 -0500 Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk ([80.68.93.111]:43486 "EHLO cassiel.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754025AbZLIONy (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:13:54 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:13:58 +0000 From: Mark Brown To: Joe Perches Cc: Uwe Kleine-K?nig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: pass upstream rev to scripts/get_maintainer.pl Message-ID: <20091209141357.GG9018@sirena.org.uk> References: <20091209090639.GA23236@pengutronix.de> <1260367667.27319.11.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1260367667.27319.11.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> X-Cookie: Include me out. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cassiel.sirena.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 06:07:47AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 10:06 +0100, Uwe Kleine-K??nig wrote: > > I often face the "problem" that get_maintainer.pl yields my name, too, > > as the commits I want to send are included in HEAD. > Why is this a problem? With the limit on the number of people returned it's possible that authors of the patch series being posted (there may be more than one) will push out folks that it'd be good to include.