linux-kernel - Re: get_maintainer.pl bug? (was: Re: [PATCH 0/8] linker-section array fix and clean ups)

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Message-ID: <92d39ff1408078a656c43bee24e7e9b3e3815e72.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 04 Nov 2020 04:04:00 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: get_maintainer.pl bug? (was: Re: [PATCH 0/8] linker-section
 array fix and clean ups)

On Wed, 2020-11-04 at 10:16 +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Running scrips/get_maintainer.pl on this series [1] gave the wrong
> address for Nick Desaulniers:
> 
> 	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...ogle.com> (commit_signer:1/2=50%,commit_signer:1/8=12%)
> 
> It seems he recently misspelled his address in a reviewed-by tag to
> commit 33def8498fdd ("treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo)
> to __section("foo")") and that is now being picked up by the script.
> 
> I guess that's to be considered a bug?

No, that's a feature.  If it's _really_ a problem, (and I don't
think it really is), that's what .mailmap is for.