From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-vk1-f176.google.com (mail-vk1-f176.google.com [209.85.221.176]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3531B17EC for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2022 13:55:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vk1-f176.google.com with SMTP id t64so1443173vkb.12 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2022 06:55:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:from:to:cc; bh=iFFlawpLd8dEyo8k6ua2cFPnndIHYumAR+E1F60vFyo=; b=YIEwVZAthBhevZc9B4rShDQgMTC00W2mE356tvnPWPDDCk2lcsgCj/9VvonDYZq57X EuGyMu0iyd7hf/E9Jpa4FCA5P9Fllpg4SaTwvDsAL+3su10nnzbMUZwYCwdijtgr30KD eGPltHDfVY3j/01erkG45BDairyfjh8II8mspgegqXnK1LyAKYbfaj3KZiLRzwNLaTDD ONSRgUzDNbwH87CgIxyql7QvTvAqjvtkoFEzorFC57flnHqQ9KjjfQK06MiNGKBXhBqB xv0gZcNC/ZDVgN7rKvh+HNQTYV9Tf/8ubmEbcq/FNr0MdPgGv0sYU7x+uln6lFx/pffJ Q9Xg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc; bh=iFFlawpLd8dEyo8k6ua2cFPnndIHYumAR+E1F60vFyo=; b=asSc3PMK6XCQ2SgqSiZcRG6yywZwilUwNATXJ23l1RSo2jxxZuIUq9TTpwg0bxFCfn cBIVruUDnkGdVXd8vw+4Ci4VdSmr5S4WsvzHO2wFNJUxIuKMv9dYlPqcAZElC+OVBmM3 LFO2246y2+cNO0KfzxO4IyC9u0k4ecjB2yGb8BwwziNTx5P0MnDxi3FDwUhTA5MccO2Z vEPT+81K11hS6uoPK3G8/S7GMrpdfnZTsQgaV4MXZ4UrD6xWt+WU3T9uUZFTIPQVolXZ vo2cGjdn/C8bFWNE0WrmPH5NOxzajYifYfkOgTUB7d8J5QYmsJfxGJCGQQuZXsK+erTM xL0Q== X-Gm-Message-State: ACgBeo0GvrCPEUr+PFzleZI+OHK4HNSJwPR6CMPPj/MWU9IMX9l+Ycdt RebQuXZOLVSsnCgp7nt/+6wqcFiB2D/unTDiPw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA6agR6rLA8900BmeBq0UStvLZAe4TJ5yezEHkJ8SsVk1WLopdF88qOsLH91TGz+rc6YdtSArI3ltg+Jd79tdRoZ0BA= X-Received: by 2002:a1f:ecc4:0:b0:377:8f7c:8873 with SMTP id k187-20020a1fecc4000000b003778f7c8873mr11704900vkh.14.1660139710996; Wed, 10 Aug 2022 06:55:10 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20220809171316.1d6ce319@hermes.local> <20220810082640.GK3438@kadam> <20220810120450.GT3460@kadam> In-Reply-To: From: Rob Herring Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 07:54:59 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Validating MAINTAINERS entries? To: Lee Jones Cc: Mark Brown , Dan Carpenter , Lee Jones , Lukas Bulwahn , Greg KH , Stephen Hemminger , ksummit@lists.linux.dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 7:25 AM Lee Jones wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Mark Brown wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 03:04:50PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 12:50:50PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > > > > > > I am presently plagued with reviews for lots of files that I've > > > > touched over the years. Even if the changes were trivial. After your W=1 and kerneldoc fixes, you're screwed. ;) > > > > > > Or is this just an education point? > > > > > Education is not the answer. Yes. I'm convinced there is no way to solve these problems on the sender side. I see plenty of cases of not running get_maintainers.pl. You've got to filter out what you want on your end. And lei is great for that. > > > We've got thousands of devs and no one can keep track of everyone and > > > their motives. > > > > I think the issue there is more that if someone sent a drive by patch to > > some driver they'll start showing up in the git history and often get > > CCed on future changes going forwards, which can then result in getting > > copied into further postings done by copying from prior postings. That > > does feel somewhat tractable to education, at least in the early stages. > > How about default tooling values, get_maintainer.pl in this case? > > I tend to over-ride this default to 75% to avoid the aforementioned: > > --git-min-percent => minimum percentage of commits required (default: 5) > > 5 is not a lot of percent for seldomly touched source files. Send a patch. I would also bump --git-min-signatures from 1. Rob