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From:   Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:26:53 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: Convert to using %pOFn instead of device_node.name
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 3:45 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2018-09-12 at 15:26 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > A problem with MAINTAINERS is there is no way to tell who applies
> > patches for a given path vs. anyone else listed.
>
> try the --scm option

That kind of helps if the maintainer has listed a tree, but gives
wrong results if not. And you still have to figure out who owns which
tree. That's not hard, but it's not scriptable.

IMO, we should reserve 'M:' for maintainers with trees and use 'R:'
driver maintainers. That's redefining M as "maintainer" rather than
"mail patches to". You could still have both for a entry so you can
know who to go bug when your patch hasn't been applied.

Rob