linux-kernel - Re: [patch] get_maintainer: handle file names beginning with ./

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Date:	Fri, 8 Jan 2016 21:46:04 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] get_maintainer: handle file names beginning with ./

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 09:47:07AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > Then maybe you'd also have to consider fully qualified
> > > file names, tilde expansion, $PWD, and probably a bunch
> > > of other things too.
> > 
> > I don't think you'd "have" to consider those as well, but I won't stand
> > in your way if you want to...
> 
> Half measures aren't generally good enough.
> 

Those are fake issues though and I can't imagine how they would affect
anyone.  My issue was super annoying for me because I was sending find
output to a script and it was almost mailing the correct people because
it was using git output.  I had to debug for a long time before I
spotted the difference between ./drivers/media/radio/wl128x/fmdrv_common.c
and drivers/media/radio/wl128x/fmdrv_common.c.

I feel like I have seen this before and just manually added the correct
mailing lists back.  It's crazy annoying and easy to do.

> Using a combination of CWnd abs_fast_path and $lk_path
> is probably better.  $lkpath is set to './' by default.

I have no idea what this means...  It sounds like a good idea though.
:)  Please give me Reported-by credit.

regards,
dan carpenter