On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 8:57 AM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> > wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 10:57:28AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >> When I sent a patch, I use get_maintainer.pl then I add whoever the >> wrote the commit from the Fixes tag. Then I remove Colin King and Kees >> Cook from the CC list because they worked all over the tree and I know >> them. I also normally remove LKML if there is another mailing list but >> at least one subsystem uses LKML for patchwork so this isn't safe. >> >> So the safest instructions are "Use get_matainer.pl and add the person >> who wrote the commit in the Fixes tag". > > Better: perhaps get_maintainer.pl can be taught to add the author of the > commit pointed to by the Fixes tag, if present?
The drm maintainer tools [1] have that, with Cc's and reviewers picked up, and appropriate Cc: stable added. On a random commit from v5.3: $ dim fixes 61f7f7c8f978b1c0d80e43c83b7d110ca0496eb4 Fixes: 61f7f7c8f978 ("gpiolib: acpi: Add gpiolib_acpi_run_edge_events_on_boot option and blacklist") Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org Cc: Daniel Drake <dr...@endlessm.com> Cc: Ian W MORRISON <ianwmorri...@gmail.com> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com> Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerb...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszew...@baylibre.com> Cc: linux-g...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-a...@vger.kernel.org Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> # v5.3+ I'm sure it could be massively improved, but it does give you the initial list that's easy to trim. BR, Jani. [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/maintainer-tools/blob/master/dim#L2398 -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center