On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 09:45:25 -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 09:23, Jakub Kicinski [off-list ref] wrote:

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Nack on that bit.
My recollection is it's Linus' preferred mechanism.  

Let Linus speak for himself, hopefully he's okay with throwing
in the -f.  

It's not the '-f' that would be the problem - that's how the script
used to work long ago, and I still occasionally end up adding the -f
by habit.

So removing the auto-guessing of file paths wouldn't be a problem.

But the annoying warning is wrong.

I use get_maintainers all the time, and I *only* use it for file
paths. If I know the commit, I get the list of people from the commit
itself, so why should I *ever* use that script if I have a patch?

You are special, you presumably use it to find who to report
regressions to, and who to pull into conversations.

This tool is primarily used by _developers_ to find _maintainers_.
I mean *thousands* of developers use it every release to send their
patches.

The tool needs to see the commit message to fish out Fixes tags.

So the whole "use of get_maintainers is only for patches, and we
should warn about file paths" is insane.

Hrmpf, hrmpf.

No. If I get that patch, I will remove the warning. The *only* reason
for me to ever use that script is for the file path lookup.

             Linus