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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:13:32 +1000
From: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>
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To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.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
Subject: Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address across
 the kernel
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On 10/06/11 13:11, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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)
Okay, what is the correct fix then so that people get the right email 
address for me?

~Ryan


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