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On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 06:22:39PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 28/11/2022 16:56, Doug Anderson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 3:27 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski
> > <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 24/11/2022 12:20, 楊宗翰 wrote:
> >>> Hi Krzysztof, Matthias,
> >>>
> >>> How to use "get_maintainers.pl"?
> >>>
> >>> I find this script in path "<MyCodebase>/kernel/v5.15/script", and output
> >>
> >> This looks like v5.15 kernel which is heavily outdated. Please never
> >> work on such kernels when interacting with upstream. The rule is you
> >> work on either last mainline kernel (v6.1-rc6), maintainers for-next
> >> branch (you should know who is the maintainer of subsystem you submit
> >> to, get_maintainers.pl gives this information) or on moderately recent
> >> linux-next. For bigger patchsets there might be exceptions for these
> >> rules, but it's not the case here.
> > 
> > Just to add context here, it's a fairly standard workflow for ChromeOS
> > kernel engineers to work in a "versioned" kernel directory but still
> > checkout and work with the upstream kernel. I'm sure it's confusing to
> > anyone not used to working with the ChromeOS source tree and build
> > system. Sorry! :( So the fact that Owen is in a directory called
> > "v5.15" doesn't mean that he's actually working with the v5.15 kernel.
> > The fact that Bjorn's address is correct in his CC list implies to me
> > that he's actually got a proper upstream kernel.
> > 
> > I had previously [0] instructed Owen to send against Bjorn's tree, so
> > hopefully it's correct.
> 
> If it was on Bjorn's tree, get_maintainers.pl would not produce such result:
> 
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These look like manual entries for patman

> or this:
> 
> ---
> owen@buildsvr-HP-ProDesk-600-G4-MT:~/chromebook_zombie_os/src/third_party/kernel/v5.15$
> perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f MAINTAINERS --email
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
> ---
> 
> as Owen indicated earlier. They are either incomplete or not correct.
> 
> Of course I don't know whether the base tree is the problem or usage of
> get_maintainers.pl...

That looks like an operator error, the above command produces the same result with
an upstream tree.

Issue one is the use of '-f' which seems to expect a file with a list of e-mail
addresses, which MAINTAINERS is not. The second issue is that no patch file or
directory is specified.