linux/scripts/get_maintainer.pl, branch v5.6

scripts/get_maintainer.pl: deprioritize old Fixes: addresses

2020-02-21T19:22:15Z

Recently, I found that get_maintainer was causing me to send emails to the old addresses for maintainers. Since I usually just trust the output of get_maintainer to know the right email address, I didn't even look carefully and fired off two patch series that went to the wrong place. Oops. The problem was introduced recently when trying to add signatures from Fixes. The problem was that these email addresses were added too early in the process of compiling our list of places to send. Things added to the list earlier are considered more canonical and when we later added maintainer entries we ended up deduplicating to the old address. Here are two examples using mainline commits (to make it easier to replicate) for the two maintainers that I messed up recently: $ git format-patch d8549bcd0529~..d8549bcd0529 $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl 0001-clk-Add-clk_hw*.patch | grep Boyd Stephen Boyd ... $ git format-patch 6d1238aa3395~..6d1238aa3395 $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl 0001-arm64-dts-qcom-qcs404*.patch | grep Andy Andy Gross Let's move the adding of addresses from Fixes: to the end since the email addresses from these are much more likely to be older. After this patch the above examples get the right addresses for the two examples. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200127095001.1.I41fba9f33590bfd92cd01960161d8384268c6569@changeid Fixes: 2f5bd343694e ("scripts/get_maintainer.pl: add signatures from Fixes: lines in commit message") Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson Acked-by: Joe Perches Cc: Stephen Boyd Cc: Bjorn Andersson Cc: Andy Gross Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

get_maintainer: remove uses of P: for maintainer name

2020-02-21T19:22:15Z

Commit 1ca84ed6425f ("MAINTAINERS: Reclaim the P: tag for Maintainer Entry Profile") changed the use of the "P:" tag from "Person" to "Profile (ie: special subsystem coding styles and characteristics)" Change how get_maintainer.pl parses the "P:" tag to match. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca53823fc5d25c0be32ad937d0207a0589c08643.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Acked-by: Dan Williams Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

scripts/get_maintainer.pl: add signatures from Fixes: lines in commit message

2019-12-05T03:44:12Z

A Fixes: lines in a commit message generally indicate that a previous commit was inadequate for whatever reason. The signers of the previous inadequate commit should also be cc'd on this new commit so update get_maintainer to find the old commit and add the original signers. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/33605b9fc0e0f711236951ae84185a6218acff4f.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

get_maintainer: add ability to skip moderated mailing lists

2019-07-17T02:23:22Z

Add a command line switch --no-moderated to skip L: mailing lists marked with 'moderated'. Some people prefer not emailing moderated mailing lists as the moderation time can be indeterminate and some emails can be intentionally dropped by a moderator. This can cause fragmentation of email threads when some are subscribed to a moderated list but others are not and emails are dropped. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6f23c2918ad9fc744269feb8f909bdfb105c5afc.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

get_maintainer: allow option --mpath to read all files in

2018-08-22T17:52:48Z

There is an external use case for multiple private MAINTAINER style files in a separate directory. Allow it. --mpath has a default of "./MAINTAINERS". The value entered can be either a file or a directory. The behaviors are now: --mpath Read only the specific file as file --mpath Read all files in as files --mpath --find-maintainer-files Recurse through and read all files named MAINTAINERS Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/991b2f20112d53863cd79e61d908f1d26d3e1971.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Tested-by: Don Zickus Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

get_maintainer.pl: add -mpath= for MAINTAINERS file location

2018-08-22T17:52:48Z

Add the ability to have an override for the location of the MAINTAINERS file. Miscellanea: o Properly indent a few lines with leading spaces Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a86e69195076ed3c4c526fddc76b86c28e0a1e37.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Suggested-by: Don Zickus Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

get_maintainer: allow usage outside of kernel tree

2018-08-22T17:52:47Z

Add option '--no-tree' to get_maintainer.pl script to allow using this script in projects that aren't the Linux kernel if they use the same format for their MAINTAINERS file. This command is also available in checkpatch.pl, for example. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/04452ac6-1575-f612-72c6-6ea88e70a9d5@arm.com Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz Cc: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

get_maintainer: improve patch recognition

2018-06-08T00:34:39Z

There are mode change and rename only patches that are unrecognized by the get_maintainer.pl script. Recognize them. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bf63101a908d0ff51948164aa60e672368066186.1526949367.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

scripts: use SPDX tag in get_maintainer and checkpatch

2018-06-08T00:34:33Z

Add the appropriate SPDX tag to these scripts. Miscellanea: o Add my copyright to checkpatch Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d08e49e8f6562c58a63792aa64306d1851f81f4b.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Cc: Andy Whitcroft Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

get_maintainer: add more --self-test options

2017-11-18T00:10:01Z

Add tests for duplicate section headers, missing section content, link and scm reachability. Miscellanea: o Add --self-test= options (a comma separated list of any of sections, patterns, links or scm) where the default without options is all tests o Rename check_maintainers_patterns to self_test o Rename self_test_pattern_info to self_test_info [tom.saeger@oracle.com: improvements] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/13e3986c374902fcf08ae947e36c5c608bbe3b79.1510075301.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Reviewed-by: Tom Saeger Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds