Hello Andrew, On 12/08/2015 08:11 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 19:13:32 -0300 Javier Martinez Canillas > <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip] >> >> I sent this patch before [0] but was never picked. MAINTAINERS doesn't >> say who should manage patches to file2alias so maybe I didn't add the >> right person to the cc list. > > z:/usr/src/git26> perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f scripts/mod > Rusty Russell <[email protected]> (commit_signer:18/27=67%) > Yes, I use get_maintainer.pl but usually with the --no-git-fallback since the --git-fallback option tends to be too noisy and people complain that are cc'ed on random patches just because they touched a file in the past. IOW, there is no way to know only by looking at get_maintainer.pl output if Rusty has only made a lot of changes to that repo or if he acts as a maintainer (i.e: picks patches and send pull requests). For these cases, is good to have a proper entry in MAINTAINERS. >> Documentation/development-process/5.Posting says that if there is no >> obvious maintainer, then Andrew Morton is often the patch target so >> I'm re-sending to him. > > Yep. If I don't handle the particular patch, I know who does ;) > I see that you picked the patch already, thanks a lot for your help! Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Open Source Group Samsung Research America -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
