Re: [PATCH net] bonding: initialize err for empty target lists

On Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:44:11 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote:

quoted

I didn't mean it as a maintainer, it is customary and good practice
to email the author of the commit that introduced the regression,
that is all I was trying to say.  

Interesting:

scripts/get_maintainer.pl --help
usage: scripts/get_maintainer.pl [options] patchfile
       scripts/get_maintainer.pl [options] -f file|directory
version: 0.26

MAINTAINER field selection options:
  --email => print email address(es) if any
...
    --fixes => for patches, add signatures of commits with 'Fixes: <commit>' (default: 1 (on))

So it should of done it, if it was run on the patch, rather than the
file.

FWIW it's a common mistake to run get maint on a file path.
I sent a patch once to print a WARNING when paths are used.
But apparently the path case has at least one important user - Linus :)