2010-11-01 12:04:52

by Timur Tabi

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] OF device tree: Move of_get_mac_address() to a common source file.

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Grant Likely <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Signed-off-by: David Daney <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Grant Likely <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
>> Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Corey Minyard <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Vitaly Bordug <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <[email protected]>
>> Cc: John Rigby <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Wolfgang Denk <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Sandeep Gopalpet <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Kumar Gala <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Li Yang <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Sergey Matyukevich <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Sean MacLennan <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Sadanand Mutyala <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Andres Salomon <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]
>
> You don't need to believe everything that get_maintainers is telling
> you. ?When you get a large list like this, don't Cc everyone, but
> apply some educated guesses. ?You can guess that the PowerPC and
> Microblaze maintainers care because it touches their trees, and you
> can guess that I care because I'm the dt maintainer. David Miller
> isn't a bad guess because of networking. ?But 22 people is excessive.

And ironically, he left out the person who wrote the function -- me.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale