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

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Message-ID: <87a8jkdg7o.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 May 2016 16:14:19 +0300
From:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>
Cc:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	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\@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: get_maintainer.pl and MAINTAINERS file

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com> writes:

> 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.

IIRC I have received patches about i2c and graphics stuff and I have no
recollection of ever sending even a single patch to those subsystems,
let alone maintaining them.

>> 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.

Exactly my point, thank you. No need to pollute people's inboxes
unnecessary.

-- 
Kalle Valo