linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.5 133/150] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: deprioritize old Fixes: addresses

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Message-ID: <20200227161829.GE3308@kadam>
Date:   Thu, 27 Feb 2020 19:18:29 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.5 133/150] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: deprioritize old
 Fixes: addresses

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:20:32AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-02-27 at 14:37 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
> > 
> > commit 0ef82fcefb99300ede6f4d38a8100845b2dc8e30 upstream.
> 
> I think adding just about any checkpatch patch to stable a bit silly.
> Including patches to checkpatch.
> 

On the other hand, Greg is one of the worst affected by the old behavior
since he has so many old email addresses and he's also the stable
maintainer.

regards,
dan carpenter