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

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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:48:44 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: "Limonciello, Mario" <mario.limonciello@....com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 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
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: get_maintainer: steer people away from using
 file paths

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 11:45, Limonciello, Mario
<mario.limonciello@....com> wrote:
>
> If the goal is to get people who are involved with a file, how about
> some variation of:

No, that isn't the goal.

The goal is to get the maintainer responsible for that file, so that I
can bring them in.

Maybe it's a security issue that gets reported. Maybe it's an oops.
Maybe it's a regression, but not clear what caused it.

Maybe we could have a script to help do that, and call it
'get_maintainer' or something like that?

              Linus