linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] clkdev: Update clkdev id usage to allow for longer names

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Message-ID: <Zdj8sSKBG22msfYy@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 22:14:41 +0200
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Ruhl, Michael J" <michael.j.ruhl@...el.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] clkdev: Update clkdev id usage to allow for longer
 names

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 07:49:33PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 08:32:27PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 06:22:13PM +0000, Ruhl, Michael J wrote:
> > > >From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> > > >Sent: Friday, February 23, 2024 12:43 PM
> > > >On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:35:16AM -0500, Michael J. Ruhl wrote:

..

> > > >[1]: https://github.com/andy-shev/home-bin-
> > > >tools/blob/master/ge2maintainer.sh
> > > 
> > > Using your script I got:
> > > 
> > > To: "Michael J. Ruhl" <michael.j.ruhl@...el.com>,
> > >         linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
> > >         linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> > > Cc: Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>
> > > 
> > > My list (using get_maintainers.pl) is:
> > > 
> > > linux@...linux.org.uk
> > > linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
> > > linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> > > 
> > > They appear to be the same....
> > 
> > Ah, the Russel's email looked like a mailing list, that what confused me.
> 
> Joe, I think you know that I'll pick up on your mis-spelling of my
> name... and I take that as an implicit right to call you something
> other than your proper name. :D

Since, Javier, you told me that, I now remember some rumors... :D

> Secondly, because the Cc contained my name, I fail to see how you can
> confuse that with a mailing list. Maybe your script that you mentioned
> strips the names from the email addresses, thereby adding to your
> confusion - and maybe that isn't such a good idea after all?

It's other way around. My script uses full names.

> I'm not the only one who uses linux@... There are six people in total listed
> in MAINTAINERS who have a linux@... email address there.

Yes, but you are the only one which pops up WRT this file.

> > > I don't have the plain text part on Russel's email
> > > (linxu@...linux.org.uk)... Is that what is missing?
> > 
> > Yes :-)
> > But my script also uses a heuristics (which is not visible here) to add active
> > developers of the code in question based on the git history.
> 
> The developers in question for this part of the code is me and not the
> CCF.

Yes, get_maintainer.pl seems to return that. It's me who naively considered you
as CCF maintainer.

> Therefore, what has been done by the patch author is reasonable
> and no special scripts are necessary.

The scripts makes life easier and robust against changes.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko