linux-kernel - Re: get_maintainer.pl and MAINTAINERS file

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Date:	Thu, 19 May 2016 13:57:43 -0300
From:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
Cc:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	Robin van der Gracht <robin@...tonic.nl>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
	Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>,
	Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
	Matt Ranostay <mranostay@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: get_maintainer.pl and MAINTAINERS file

Em Thu, 19 May 2016 16:25:45 +0200
Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com> escreveu:

> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> > (Changed the subject from "Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] auxdisplay: Introduce ht16k33 driver")
> >
> > Robin van der Gracht <robin@...tonic.nl> writes:
> >  
> >>> And 4th, what is with the insane number of people on cc:?  Use
> >>> get_maintainer.pl correctly please, and don't just hit everyone you
> >>> can possibly think of with a cc: for no good reason.  
> >>
> >> I did use the get_maintainer script. I solely passed the patch set as
> >> command line argument.  
> >
> > I think get_maintainer script should ignore MAINTAINERS file altogether.
> > After I did drivers/net/wireless reorganisation, and had to make
> > numerous changes to MAINTAINERS in the process, I have been CCed to all
> > sorts of patchsets to which I have nothing to do with (this one
> > included). I suspect get_maintainer.pl is to blame here.  
> 
> Are you sure it is because you are listed as maintainer for specific files?
> If you are maintain something you have to be CC'ed.
> It is rather because get_maintainer.pl tries to be smart and uses git to
> find people who have touched a file...
> 
> I guess instead you want something like:
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.head/538561

I guess what Kalle said is that the get_maintainer.pl script should
disable, by default, "--git-blame" behavior for some specific files that
everyone touches like /MAINTAINERS, Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt,
/CREDITS, etc,  as random people that touch on those files aren't really
interested on being c/c to every change there.

Regards,
Mauro