Re: get_maintainer.pl and MAINTAINERS file

Mauro Carvalho Chehab [off-list ref] writes:

Em Thu, 19 May 2016 16:25:45 +0200
Richard Weinberger [off-list ref] escreveu:

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On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Kalle Valo [off-list ref] wrote:

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(Changed the subject from "Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] auxdisplay: Introduce ht16k33 driver")

Robin van der Gracht [off-list ref] writes:
 

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And 4th, what is with the insane number of people on cc:?  Use
get_maintainer.pl correctly please, and don't just hit everyone you
can possibly think of with a cc: for no good reason.  

I did use the get_maintainer script. I solely passed the patch set as
command line argument.  

I think get_maintainer script should ignore MAINTAINERS file altogether.
After I did drivers/net/wireless reorganisation, and had to make
numerous changes to MAINTAINERS in the process, I have been CCed to all
sorts of patchsets to which I have nothing to do with (this one
included). I suspect get_maintainer.pl is to blame here.  

Are you sure it is because you are listed as maintainer for specific files?
If you are maintain something you have to be CC'ed.

IIRC I have received patches about i2c and graphics stuff and I have no
recollection of ever sending even a single patch to those subsystems,
let alone maintaining them.

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It is rather because get_maintainer.pl tries to be smart and uses git to
find people who have touched a file...

I guess instead you want something like:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.head/538561

I guess what Kalle said is that the get_maintainer.pl script should
disable, by default, "--git-blame" behavior for some specific files that
everyone touches like /MAINTAINERS, Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt,
/CREDITS, etc,  as random people that touch on those files aren't really
interested on being c/c to every change there.

Exactly my point, thank you. No need to pollute people's inboxes
unnecessary.

-- 
Kalle Valo