On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 08:59:26AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

We repeatedly see noobs misuse get_maintainer by running it on
the file paths rather than the patchfile. This leads to authors
of changes (quoted commits and commits under Fixes) not getting
CCed. These are usually the best reviewers!

The file option should really not be used by noobs, unless
they are just trying to find a maintainer to manually contact.

Print a warning when someone tries to use -f and remove
the "auto-guessing" of file paths.

This script may break people's "scripts on top of get_maintainer"
if they are using -f... but that's the point.

Ok, I'll go fix up my local scripts, but you should change your subject
line to say "get_maintainer", not "checkpatch" :)

thanks,

greg k-h