netdev - Re: [PATCH] scripts: checkpatch: steer people away from using file paths

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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 10:10:51 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: krzk@...nel.org, joe@...ches.com, geert@...ux-m68k.org,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, workflows@...r.kernel.org,
 mario.limonciello@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: checkpatch: steer people away from using file
 paths

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:53:48 +0200 Greg KH wrote:
> > This script may break people's "scripts on top of get_maintainer"
> > if they are using -f... but that's the point.  
> 
> Ok, I'll go fix up my local scripts,

Which one? I spotted this in your repo but it already seems
to use patches:

https://github.com/gregkh/gregkh-linux/blob/master/scripts/generate_cc_list

How do you use this, BTW?

> but you should change your subject
> line to say "get_maintainer", not "checkpatch" :)

Ugh, will do :)