Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] staging: rtl8723bs: Code cleanup in drivers/staging/rtl8723bs

From: Andy Shevchenko

Date: Thu Apr 09 2026 - 12:08:47 EST


On Thu, Apr 09, 2026 at 05:44:24PM +0200, Luka Gejak wrote:
> On April 9, 2026 5:39:58 PM GMT+02:00, Prithvi <activprithvi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 09, 2026 at 05:02:16PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 09, 2026 at 08:20:45PM +0530, Prithvi wrote:

...

> >> But next time, trim your "who do I cc:" list, as it is _way_ too big,
> >> how did you generate it?
> >
> >Understood...here I used all the email addresses generated from the
> >get_maintainer.pl script. Next time, I'll be sure to trim it down just to
> >maintainers and reviewers.
>
> Upon testing myself, get_maintainer.pl doesn't list all of those
> people when ran on a directory or a file in staging.

Also you may check my script [1] that I use on everyday basis to send patches
to Linux kernel. It has some heuristics that showed to be almost suitable.

[1]: https://github.com/andy-shev/home-bin-tools/blob/master/ge2maintainer.sh

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko