From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>,
Robin van der Gracht <robin@protonic.nl>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>,
Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>,
Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
Matt Ranostay <mranostay@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
"devicetree\@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: get_maintainer.pl and MAINTAINERS file
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 16:14:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8jkdg7o.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160519135743.5fc661c4@recife.lan> (Mauro Carvalho Chehab's message of "Thu, 19 May 2016 13:57:43 -0300")
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com> writes:
> Em Thu, 19 May 2016 16:25:45 +0200
> Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> > (Changed the subject from "Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] auxdisplay: Introduce ht16k33 driver")
>> >
>> > Robin van der Gracht <robin@protonic.nl> writes:
>> >
>> >>> And 4th, what is with the insane number of people on cc:? Use
>> >>> get_maintainer.pl correctly please, and don't just hit everyone you
>> >>> can possibly think of with a cc: for no good reason.
>> >>
>> >> I did use the get_maintainer script. I solely passed the patch set as
>> >> command line argument.
>> >
>> > I think get_maintainer script should ignore MAINTAINERS file altogether.
>> > After I did drivers/net/wireless reorganisation, and had to make
>> > numerous changes to MAINTAINERS in the process, I have been CCed to all
>> > sorts of patchsets to which I have nothing to do with (this one
>> > included). I suspect get_maintainer.pl is to blame here.
>>
>> Are you sure it is because you are listed as maintainer for specific files?
>> If you are maintain something you have to be CC'ed.
IIRC I have received patches about i2c and graphics stuff and I have no
recollection of ever sending even a single patch to those subsystems,
let alone maintaining them.
>> It is rather because get_maintainer.pl tries to be smart and uses git to
>> find people who have touched a file...
>>
>> I guess instead you want something like:
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.head/538561
>
> I guess what Kalle said is that the get_maintainer.pl script should
> disable, by default, "--git-blame" behavior for some specific files that
> everyone touches like /MAINTAINERS, Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt,
> /CREDITS, etc, as random people that touch on those files aren't really
> interested on being c/c to every change there.
Exactly my point, thank you. No need to pollute people's inboxes
unnecessary.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-20 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-18 12:23 [PATCH v6 0/3] auxdisplay: Introduce ht16k33 driver Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-18 12:23 ` [PATCH v6 1/3] of: add vendor prefix for Holtek Semiconductor Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-18 23:17 ` Rob Herring
2016-05-18 12:23 ` [PATCH v6 2/3] auxdisplay: ht16k33: Driver for LED controller Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-18 23:23 ` Rob Herring
2016-05-18 12:23 ` [PATCH v6 3/3] MAINTAINERS: auxdisplay: Added myself as maintainer for ht16k33 driver Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-18 14:32 ` Linus Walleij
2016-05-18 15:09 ` [PATCH v6 0/3] auxdisplay: Introduce " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-05-19 8:54 ` Robin van der Gracht
2016-05-19 12:57 ` get_maintainer.pl and MAINTAINERS file Kalle Valo
2016-05-19 14:25 ` Richard Weinberger
2016-05-19 16:57 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-05-20 13:14 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2016-05-19 19:53 ` Jiri Slaby
2016-05-19 22:32 ` Joe Perches
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