Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751867AbbEBLQj (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2015 07:16:39 -0400 Received: from esgaroth.petrovitsch.at ([78.47.184.11]:5217 "EHLO esgaroth.tuxoid.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751163AbbEBLQh (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2015 07:16:37 -0400 Subject: Re: get_maintainers.pl is rude, was Re: [PATCH 05/19] USB: inode.c: move assignment out of if () block From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Joe Perches Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 13:16:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20150430125403.GA22948@lst.de> References: <1430386388-15462-1-git-send-email-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <1430386388-15462-5-git-send-email-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <20150430093608.GA18432@lst.de> <20150430124004.GA17070@kroah.com> <20150430125403.GA22948@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.3 (3.0.3-1.fc15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1430565386.20751.6.camel@thorin> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-DCC-EATSERVER-Metrics: esgaroth.tuxoid.at 1166; Body=4 Fuz1=4 Fuz2=4 X-Spam-Report: * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.0 AWL AWL: Adjusted score from AWL reputation of From: address Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1128 Lines: 28 On Don, 2015-04-30 at 14:54 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 02:40:04PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > scripts/get_maintainer.pl is bringing up your name for this file as you > > have modified it in the past: > > I've probably modified a large part of files in the kernel in the past. [...] Does it make sense(Is it enough to filter the changes to only include changes from the last 6 months or so (if there are newer changes;-)? People probably don't care if they didn't touch it for ages anyway. Or ignore changes which touch only a few lines completely (to not include typo fixes or trivial fixups)? Kind regards, Bernd -- "I dislike type abstraction if it has no real reason. And saving on typing is not a good reason - if your typing speed is the main issue when you're coding, you're doing something seriously wrong." - Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/