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Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:45:59 +0000
From:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
Cc:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, monstr@...str.eu,
	Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@...omium.org>,
	David Box <david.e.box@...ux.intel.com>,
	Kamal Dasu <kdasu.kdev@...il.com>,
	Joachim Eastwood <manabian@...il.com>,
	Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@...aro.org>,
	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Neelesh Gupta <neelegup@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Subhendu Sekhar Behera <sbehera@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: Enable Cadence driver for ARM64

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On 10/27/2015 12:00 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 02:32:36PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> >>> Regarding your address list -- it's too big.  Most of your addressees
> >>> don't care about this patch.  Please be more selective when sending
> >>> patches to people, most of us have enough (relevant) mail as it is.
> >>
> >> Probably more effective than to write every user of get_maintainer.pl:
> >> Patch it to not use git history by default and win the fight ;)
> >
> 
> Agreed, coincidentally I was telling people today that get_maintainers.pl
> only provides a suggestion and that it should not be followed blindly.
> 
> > Geert wrote to Joe today.  Let's see if he can improve things.
> > 
> 
> What about something like the following patch until Joe writes a more
> smarter git fallback version?
> 
> From d6dc34810d24f33afb3c158d519966c1b6167a2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 23:46:52 +0900
> Subject: [RFC PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default
> 
> The get_maintainer.pl script could be used to get a list of people that
> has to be in the copy list when posting patches for a given file but it
> defaults to git fallback so the list returned isn't really relevant and
> submitters are posting patches to random developers that just happened
> to touch that file in the past.
> 
> Disable git fallback so get_maintainer.pl only returns the information
> that is in MAINTAINERS by default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
> ---
>  scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Works for me.  Although you should have used get_maintainer.pl and
CC'ed Joe. ;)

I never did this before -- it was both odd and fun:

  $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f scripts/get_maintainer.pl 
  Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> (maintainer:GET_MAINTAINER SCRIPT)

> diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> index 98bae869f6d0..b52ae26270e8 100755
> --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ my $email_git = 0;
>  my $email_git_all_signature_types = 0;
>  my $email_git_blame = 0;
>  my $email_git_blame_signatures = 1;
> -my $email_git_fallback = 1;
> +my $email_git_fallback = 0;
>  my $email_git_min_signatures = 1;
>  my $email_git_max_maintainers = 5;
>  my $email_git_min_percent = 5;

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