Re: [PATCH] powerpc: disable MSI using new interface if possible

On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 14:35 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:

On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 16:28 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:

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On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 10:12 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:

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True my last patch may have been two years ago, but I _wrote the entire
file_, and essentially no one else has ever touched it.

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If you don't like how it currently works, suggest
improvements.

I think I was suggesting that I should be in that list :)

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f --git-blame arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/msi.c
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [off-list ref] (supporter:LINUX FOR POWERPC...,commits:8/11=73%)
Paul Mackerras [off-list ref] (supporter:LINUX FOR POWERPC...,commits:4/11=36%)
Grant Likely [off-list ref] (maintainer:OPEN FIRMWARE AND...)
Michael Ellerman [off-list ref] (authored lines:481/481=100%,commits:11/11=100%)
Linas Vepstas [off-list ref] (commits:1/11=9%)
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org (open list:LINUX FOR POWERPC...)
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org (open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND...)

That's awesome. But it's not the default, so hardly anyone will ever use
it :)

It's not the default for a few reasons:

o It can take a _long_ time to run
o Linus Torvalds is still the "author of record"
  for all the files in the initial commit
o For files with activity, it doesn't add very
  much useful as old commit authors do also tend
  to show up in the new commits.
o It can show maintainers that are no longer
  active.