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

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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:05:56 -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 11:59, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> You're already using 'patchwork'. Why don't you instead go "Oh, *that*
> tool isn't doing the right thing?"

Christ. Looking around, patchwork *ALREADY DOES THIS*.

Except it looks like it might be set up to just complain
("netdev/cc_maintainers"). Which seems to be why you're complaining.

IOW, you're complaining about *another* tool, because your own tool
use is set up to complain instead of being helpful.

I'm now even more convinced that that warning is completely bogus.

No way in hell am *I* going to bend over backwards and add some stupid
new rule to my workflow because *you* use a tool that is a whining
little complaint-machine instead of just *fixing* the problem.

Guys, tools are supposed to *help*, not just whine about
technicalities and make it harder for everybody else.

So just fix your tool. Don't complain about *my* use of another tool.

                 Linus