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Date:   Sun, 26 Feb 2017 19:59:16 +0100 (CET)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
cc:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile <narcisaanamaria12@...il.com>,
        swarren@...dotorg.org, lee@...nel.org, eric@...olt.net,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, rjui@...adcom.com, sbranden@...adcom.com,
        daniel.baluta@...mfreegmail.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com, mzoran@...wfest.net,
        danielperezdeandres@...il.com, dan.carpenter@...cle.com,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-rpi-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: bcm2835-audio: Fixed spacing
 around '&'



On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 19:03 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile wrote:
> >
> > > This was reported by checkpatch.pl
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile <narcisaanamaria12@...il.com>
> >
> > Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
> >
> > Actually, the outreachy tutorial says not to send patches to mailing
> > lists, only to people (except in the case of IIO, where the maintainers
> > asked for patches to be sent to mailing lists as well).  The
> > get_maintainer command to use is shown here:
> >
> > https://kernelnewbies.org/FirstKernelPatch#submit_a_patch
>
> That doesn't make any sense to me.
> Mailing lists _should_ be copied on patch submissions.

The idea of outreachy is that it should be a place for people to get
started without too much criticism from the outside.  Originally, only the
outreachy mailing list received patches.  But staging maintainers were
confused to have their drivers receiving patches that they had not seen.
So we expanded it to maintainers.

>
> And the displayed output of that command-line does not match
> the actual behavior.
>
> The command-line is:
> $ perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl --separator , --nokeywords --nogit --nogit-fallback --norolestats --nol -f drivers/staging/most/aim-sound/sound.c
>
> And the output shown is:
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
>
> That's not what's actually output by that command-line
> as it would not show the mailing list.
>
> $ perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl --separator , --nokeywords --nogit --nogit-fallback --norolestats --nol -f drivers/staging/most/aim-sound/sound.c
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

Thanks for the report, I will fix the output.

julia

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