Re: [PATCH] firmware/google: drop 'select EFI' to avoid recursivedependency

From: David Rientjes
Date: Thu Jan 23 2014 - 17:46:14 EST


On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/firmware/google/Kconfig
> > linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)
> >
> > I wonder why he's not listed as a recipient for patches from
> > get_maintainer.pl since it's clearly obvious he wrote the entire file.
>
> I do wish get_maintainer was better about this. You can apparently
> make it dtrt with funky arguments, but --git-since and --git aren't
> working for me.
>
> get_maintainer's default output should answer the question "who do I
> email about this file", and that ain't working :(
>

I also think it would be great if get_maintainer's output was friendlier
so that I can just copy a comma-separated line of "name <email>, name2
<email2>" into my email client.
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