linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address across the kernel

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Message-ID: <4DF18BDC.8010306@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:13:32 +1000
From:	Ryan Mallon <rmallon@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andre Renaud <andre@...ewatersys.com>,
	H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@...ionengravers.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
	Andrew Victor <avictor.za@...il.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Anton Vorontsov <cbou@...l.ru>, Liam Girdwood <lrg@...com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address across
 the kernel

On 10/06/11 13:11, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:05 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
>> On 10/06/11 12:55, Paul Mundt wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:12:50AM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
>>>> I no longer work at Bluewater Systems. Update my email address accordingly.
>>> Is this sort of churn really necessary? By all means, update your
>>> MAINTAINERS entry accordingly, but the rest of it is really pretty
>>> pointless. People are invariably going to consult MAINTAINERS one way or
>>> another and get the updated value accordingly. For the rest of these you
>>> are just as well off ripping out the email address completely.
> I agree.
>
>> The MAINTAINERS entry for me only cover the arm ep93xx arch. Prior to
>> this patch, if I do (for example)
>>
>> ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/power/ds2782_battery.c
>>
>> It gives my old Bluewater email. With this change it gives my gmail
>> account. Not sure if that is because it extracts the email from the
>> source or from the git commit?
> It's the git commit.
>
> get_maintainer uses the name and address in the first seen
> commit matching on the full name where possible.
>
> You can override this with --noremove-duplicates
>
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --noremove-duplicates -f drivers/power/ds2782_battery.c
> Anton Vorontsov<cbouatmailru@...il.com>  (commit_signer:4/5=80%)
> Ryan Mallon<ryan@...ewatersys.com>  (commit_signer:3/5=60%)
> Andrew Morton<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>  (commit_signer:1/5=20%)
> Peter Huewe<peterhuewe@....de>  (commit_signer:1/5=20%)
> Mike Rapoport<mike@...pulab.co.il>  (commit_signer:1/5=20%)
> linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
Okay, what is the correct fix then so that people get the right email 
address for me?

~Ryan



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