From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA41BC433FF for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2019 01:50:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB0E2084D for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2019 01:50:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726783AbfHLBt5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Aug 2019 21:49:57 -0400 Received: from szxga04-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.190]:4656 "EHLO huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726200AbfHLBt5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Aug 2019 21:49:57 -0400 Received: from DGGEMS409-HUB.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.60]) by Forcepoint Email with ESMTP id 60388B41B8A7E0293E9B; Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:49:52 +0800 (CST) Received: from [10.134.22.195] (10.134.22.195) by smtp.huawei.com (10.3.19.209) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.439.0; Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:49:48 +0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: add entry for Jaegeuk Kim To: Jonathan Corbet , Chao Yu CC: , , References: <20190802012135.31419-1-yuchao0@huawei.com> <20190802072626.405246e3@lwn.net> <20190809102816.52b3b310@lwn.net> From: Chao Yu Message-ID: Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:49:50 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190809102816.52b3b310@lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.134.22.195] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2019/8/10 0:28, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 22:37:41 +0800 > Chao Yu wrote: > >>> IMO, when we use git-blame to find out who is response for specified code, w/o >>> mailmap we may just found old obsolete email address in the related commit; even >>> we can search full name for his/her new email address, how can we make sure they >>> are the same person... so anyway, it can help to find last valid/canonical email >>> address of someone. >> >> Any thoughts? > > I'm not fully convinced that we want to maintain a database of every > developer's email history. But I did merge this patch a few days ago. Thanks for the merging anyway. :) > > Thanks, > > jon > . >