The get_maintainer.pl script could be used to get a list of people that has to be in the copy list when posting patches for a given file but it defaults to git fallback so the list returned isn't really relevant and submitters are posting patches to random developers that just happened to touch that file in the past.
Disable git fallback so get_maintainer.pl only returns the information that is in MAINTAINERS by default. Suggested-by: Wolfram Sang <w...@the-dreams.de> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <jav...@osg.samsung.com> --- Hello, This patch was suggested by Wolfram on this thread [0] but it is something I thought before because I've seen people complaining on a regular basis about being cc'ed in random patches and there are tools like patman [1] that rely on get_maintainers.pl to post the patches. [0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/26/444 [1]: http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=tools/patman/README Best regards, Javier scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl index 98bae869f6d0..b52ae26270e8 100755 --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ my $email_git = 0; my $email_git_all_signature_types = 0; my $email_git_blame = 0; my $email_git_blame_signatures = 1; -my $email_git_fallback = 1; +my $email_git_fallback = 0; my $email_git_min_signatures = 1; my $email_git_max_maintainers = 5; my $email_git_min_percent = 5; -- 2.4.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
