On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 10:45:41AM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 07:35:55PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 10:21:45AM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 07:12:09PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 08:59:17PM +0530, Kumar, Udit wrote:
> > > > > On 5/21/2024 7:59 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 04:26:44PM +0530, Udit Kumar wrote:

...

> > > > > > Are you Cc'ing random people with this?
> > > > > > Please don't do it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I used names names popped up while running get_maintainer.pl script of
> > > > > u-boot
> > > > > 
> > > > > your email id was there for patch-3 of this series
> > > > 
> > > > Nice, the tool is broken. Please, work with the respective people to 
> > > > fix a tool
> > > > or to tune it to avoid such mistakes in the future.
> > > > 
> > > > (Hint: I would first disable Git fallback completely)
> > > 
> > > So you were cc'd thanks to:
> > > commit 5e541a05f70296dbad07fc1f4e8678ad207bb476
> > > Author: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
> > > Date:   Sun Jul 30 21:01:45 2023 -0600
> > > 
> > >     env: Use include/env for text-environment includes
> > >     
> > >     The 'environment' word is too long. We mostly use 'env' in U-Boot, so 
> > > use
> > >     that as the name of the include directory too.
> > >     
> > >     Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
> > >     Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com> # 
> > > Intel Edison
> > 
> > Yeah, and it even explicitly stated what I reviewed from that code...
> > 
> > >     Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng...@gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > And, I'm sorry because there are other contributors who get upset when git
> > > fallback doesn't find them (because it also ages out after a year).
> > > In this case there's not even a "tweak the threshold" option since
> > > there's only a single commit to the file so you're in 100% of them.
> > 
> > Just an example of false positive by get_maintainer.pl :-(
> > And a confirmation of what I said — tool is broken.
> 
> It's an imperfect tool, yes. A quick check shows that if you never want
> to be cc'd from a git tag, you can add yourself to
> .get_maintainer.ignore and you will still be matched for things you have
> an explicit MAINTAINER entry for.

But this will kill me being a maintainer of U-Boot parts (regarding to
a certain platform) which is not what I want.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko


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