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

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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:02:02 -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 14:57, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> > And it can't even be the right thing to do, when experienced
> > developers don't do it.
>
> I explained to you already that Florian's posting is a PR.

.. and your point is?

The fact is, experienced developers don't add cc'd when they commit
their own patches, and nobody bats an eye on it.

So you are *literally* saying that inexperienced people should do this
pointless thing that can be - and is - automated, even though it's
clearly not the thing that is required in general.

And you're saying that I should have to change my workflow to make it
MORE INCONVENIENT to do the thing that you claim inexperienced people
do now.

Yup. We're done here.

               Linus