Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755675AbcCCDBf (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2016 22:01:35 -0500 Received: from mail-ob0-f172.google.com ([209.85.214.172]:36069 "EHLO mail-ob0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752861AbcCCDBe (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2016 22:01:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Jianyu Zhan Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 11:00:54 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: about get_maintainer.pl not showing the original author of the modified code To: joe@perches.com, LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 513 Lines: 17 Hi, Joe, recently in this patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/2/281, I found the original author of the modified code was not suggested as a patch reviewer. This surprised me at first. But later I realized that it is not trivial to define "original author", since the last modification might be just code polishing. To dig out the original author, we might need go up the commit history and git must be equipped with ability of pattern recognization to analyze code. What do you think? Regards, Jianyu Zhan