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Subject: Re: get_maintainers.pl subsystem output
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Tue, 2019-07-23 at 15:25 +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> Hi Joe,

Hi again.

> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 1:18 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2019-07-23 at 10:42 +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> [...]
> > > Joe, would you support and would you accept if we extend
> > > get_maintainer.pl to provide output of the status in such a way that
> > > the status output can be clearly mapped to the subsystem?
> > 
> > Not really, no.  I don't see much value in your
> > request to others.  It seems you are doing some
> > academic work rather than actually using it for
> > sending patches.
> > 
> 
> Thank you for that indication. It is good to know that our use case is
> too special to be covered in the existing tool and serves no one else
> besides our research work.

Seems a bit harsh a description, and yes, I've
not ever seen a single request similar to yours
to use get_maintainer in such a manner.