On Tue, 2019-07-23 at 15:25 +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > Hi Joe, Hi again.
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 1:18 PM Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2019-07-23 at 10:42 +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > [...] > > > Joe, would you support and would you accept if we extend > > > get_maintainer.pl to provide output of the status in such a way that > > > the status output can be clearly mapped to the subsystem? > > > > Not really, no. I don't see much value in your > > request to others. It seems you are doing some > > academic work rather than actually using it for > > sending patches. > > > > Thank you for that indication. It is good to know that our use case is > too special to be covered in the existing tool and serves no one else > besides our research work. Seems a bit harsh a description, and yes, I've not ever seen a single request similar to yours to use get_maintainer in such a manner.