linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] MAINTAINERS: update list of qcom drivers

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Message-ID: <f0b650bf6bcf81c56f9624cdc3dbf65e158c677b.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:28:02 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Gross <andy.gross@...aro.org>, marc.w.gonzalez@...e.fr,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] MAINTAINERS: update list of qcom drivers

On Tue, 2018-12-18 at 00:20 +0530, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:51 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > git history is used by default for the N: entries and that can
> > cause whitespace style commit authors to be cc'd on various changes
> > to matched files.
> 
> Is that by design?

yes.

> Or can we fix get_maintainer.pl to be less
> sensitive to whitespace authorship?

Use get_maintainer.pl's --nogit-fallback option