Subject: Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address
 across the kernel
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Andre Renaud <andre@bluewatersys.com>,
        H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>,
        Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>,
        Andrew Victor <avictor.za@gmail.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>,
        Liam Girdwood <lrg@ti.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>, trivial@kernel.org
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References: <1307661170-9325-1-git-send-email-rmallon@gmail.com>
	 <20110610025532.GE26006@linux-sh.org>  <4DF189F2.3040009@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:11:52 -0700
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On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:05 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> On 10/06/11 12:55, Paul Mundt wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:12:50AM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> >> I no longer work at Bluewater Systems. Update my email address accordingly.
> > Is this sort of churn really necessary? By all means, update your
> > MAINTAINERS entry accordingly, but the rest of it is really pretty
> > pointless. People are invariably going to consult MAINTAINERS one way or
> > another and get the updated value accordingly. For the rest of these you
> > are just as well off ripping out the email address completely.

I agree.

> The MAINTAINERS entry for me only cover the arm ep93xx arch. Prior to 
> this patch, if I do (for example)
> 
> ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/power/ds2782_battery.c
> 
> It gives my old Bluewater email. With this change it gives my gmail 
> account. Not sure if that is because it extracts the email from the 
> source or from the git commit?

It's the git commit.

get_maintainer uses the name and address in the first seen
commit matching on the full name where possible.

You can override this with --noremove-duplicates

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --noremove-duplicates -f drivers/power/ds2782_battery.c 
Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com> (commit_signer:4/5=80%)
Ryan Mallon <ryan@bluewatersys.com> (commit_signer:3/5=60%)
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> (commit_signer:1/5=20%)
Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de> (commit_signer:1/5=20%)
Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> (commit_signer:1/5=20%)
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)


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