Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] MAINTAINERS: Add Purism Librem 5 section to the list

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Sep 30 2020 - 11:30:32 EST


On Wed, 2020-09-30 at 12:50 +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 15:15, Shawn Guo <shawnguo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 02:17:54PM +0200, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> > > Add development information for the devicetree files for hardware
> > > by Purism SPC.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > I decided to drop this patch from my queue, as I took the suggestion
> > from Joe and sent a patch to have get_maintainer report email address
> > in the dts file.
> >
> > Shawn
> >
> > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/30/118
>
> Shawn, Joe,
>
> Cool idea! Multiple times I needed review/testing for individual
> boards and this should be faster than going through git history.
>
> Could you tell me how this is supposed to work for DTS/DTSI files? It
> seems it ignores the comments, so usual copyright notice does not have
> an effect. Where to put the address?

The get_maintainer.pl script reads an existing file and
looks for whatever appears to be an email address.

It does not ignore comments.