From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DBA0C001DF for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:30:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229706AbjGZSaG (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:30:06 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:33464 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231434AbjGZSaF (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:30:05 -0400 Received: from mail-ed1-x532.google.com (mail-ed1-x532.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::532]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3DDD62691 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ed1-x532.google.com with SMTP id 4fb4d7f45d1cf-51e28cac164so2797040a12.1 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:30:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linux-foundation.org; s=google; t=1690396202; x=1691001002; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=pqzzz+WGHeTgkjEnwwenqQNoyLcS/ky4WeoPGc3iJ2Q=; b=YA5MjgoDWlxvTFYKhUE6/dPAQhniknN4M3/1DCroxpOzpeFgDj6FH6m5mjQlj7LaHu ZPqSi9JBYdO7quOrDHv6xCSy30Rw9t4WqGYiNZMEPk0bBQ8Y2mrtfTmTzCIWmQCVBxLJ OzDpMrusLx6Sw921aTq9PFZsSASuqHDOgQSzY= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20221208; t=1690396202; x=1691001002; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=pqzzz+WGHeTgkjEnwwenqQNoyLcS/ky4WeoPGc3iJ2Q=; b=ALhE69ecWB1Gnaklk2acOK8IoKttLKuuo//tqrIYznBsMjWh/6JGM2ns9z3e9CfNFb UXRmdB0D+R701nlj95P+ijGp7TkawXRs4ZH4P978a2X5F+fJ++a901fsU/PyS8O+knzd gAvt9YDI1dm5o+LCPwHQCipNQuc3TFtYIRLKial1K0ocRMWjCxKf4oAH1HwYPeOzqkYi 17M6BsoayIwtXSJy4CUV4WttUjhOmT6vL21YeLznAUh3ug8syquV6Z1H/PGaZFrmLFeo CcIU6sOrBN9BQg2otAEB6IGxY9AFVqGgmVPPm7/F2fCDl0uT4JlF9+ppJ7pFAfRpCsJ7 zKtQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ABy/qLaWeV7oOGY+JB9f1OnWjRmOcc0c4bn18G4VIaz2osFePc8m4M6r cu3n2XyFlZmSTdAp62Ddxp9t0aXoeEMJQS8Zc4zVnqBf X-Google-Smtp-Source: APBJJlHSiTpXcsBCSkUVwx2wAZRdw7IU83155gCoXEvzwaFpCmchNabmLo2H0agyQDknCg4nQy3LwQ== X-Received: by 2002:a17:906:51dd:b0:992:ef60:aadd with SMTP id v29-20020a17090651dd00b00992ef60aaddmr473093ejk.13.1690396202492; Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-ej1-f48.google.com (mail-ej1-f48.google.com. [209.85.218.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v27-20020a170906339b00b00985ed2f1584sm9980110eja.187.2023.07.26.11.30.01 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ej1-f48.google.com with SMTP id a640c23a62f3a-9891c73e0fbso7736766b.1 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:30:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a17:906:7391:b0:993:eee4:e704 with SMTP id f17-20020a170906739100b00993eee4e704mr252853ejl.38.1690396201556; Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:30:01 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20230726151515.1650519-1-kuba@kernel.org> <11ec5b3819ff17c7013348b766eab571eee5ca96.camel@perches.com> <20230726092312.799503d6@kernel.org> <20230726112031.61bd0c62@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20230726112031.61bd0c62@kernel.org> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:29:44 -0700 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: get_maintainer: steer people away from using file paths To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Joe Perches , Krzysztof Kozlowski , geert@linux-m68k.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org, mario.limonciello@amd.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 11:20, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > You are special, So my mother tells me. > you presumably use it to find who to report > regressions to, and who to pull into conversations. Yes. So what happens is that I get cc'd on bug reports for various issues, and particularly for oops reports I basically have a function name to grep for (maybe a pathname if it went through the full decoding). I'm NOT interested in having to either remember all people off-hand, or going through the MAINTAINERS file by hand. > This tool is primarily used by _developers_ to find _maintainers_. Well, maybe. But even if that is true, I don't see why you hate the pathname thing even for that case. I bet developers use it for that exact same reason, ie they are modifying a file, and they go "I want to know who the maintainer for this file is". I do not understand why you think a patch is somehow magically more important or relevant than a filename. Linus