netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: get_maintainer: steer people away from using file paths

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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:29:44 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>, 
	geert@...ux-m68k.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	workflows@...r.kernel.org, mario.limonciello@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: get_maintainer: steer people away from using
 file paths

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 11:20, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> You are special,

So my mother tells me.

> you presumably use it to find who to report
> regressions to, and who to pull into conversations.

Yes. So what happens is that I get cc'd on bug reports for various
issues, and particularly for oops reports I basically have a function
name to grep for (maybe a pathname if it went through the full
decoding).

I'm NOT interested in having to either remember all people off-hand,
or going through the MAINTAINERS file by hand.

> This tool is primarily used by _developers_ to find _maintainers_.

Well, maybe.

But even if that is true, I don't see why you hate the pathname thing
even for that case. I bet developers use it for that exact same
reason, ie they are modifying a file, and they go "I want to know who
the maintainer for this file is".

I do not understand why you think a patch is somehow magically more
important or relevant than a filename.

               Linus