linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] get_maintainers: Inconsistent behavior on multiple runs

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Date:   Thu, 05 Oct 2017 04:41:40 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:     Manu Gautam <mgautam@...eaurora.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] get_maintainers: Inconsistent behavior on multiple runs

On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 12:21 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Hi Joe,

Hi Viresh.

> Recently I was Cc'd for some of the patches from Manu, as
> get_maintainers incorrectly mentioned me.
> 
> Apart from the fact that I never contributed to the mentioned
> file (drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qmp.c), the behavior (output)
> of get_maintainers changes on multiple runs. I tried following tests on
> pm/linux-next branch today (should be same on any of the latest -rc
> releases). There was no difference in the environment between the
> two runs.

Here's an explanation of the behavior

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/13/789