linux-kernel - Re: .mailmap support for removals (was Re: [PATCH 00/10] scsi: Replace {v}snprintf() variants with safer alternatives)

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Message-ID: <beff7f4411586efd8f08d7b3d94b0ca235375790.camel@perches.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 14:56:21 -0800
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, tools@...nel.org
Cc: Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>, Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: .mailmap support for removals (was Re: [PATCH 00/10] scsi:
 Replace {v}snprintf() variants with safer alternatives)

On Fri, 2024-02-09 at 22:56 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 05:49:12PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Feb 2024, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > 
> > > On 2/8/24 00:44, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > > Cc: Andre Hedrick <andre@...e.com>
> > > 
> > > Please take a look at https://lwn.net/Articles/508222/.
> > 
> > get_maintainer.pl pulled it from here:
> > 
> > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c#L11
> 
> Oh. Hm. It seems "git check-mailmap" (and get_maintainers.pl) don't
> support a way to remove an email address -- only redirect it.
> 
> It seems we may want to support "don't use this email address" for more
> than just the currently observed rationale. I don't have any good
> suggestions for what the format should look like? Perhaps:
> 
> "" <address-to-remove@...mple.com>

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