Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] MAINTAINERS: update list of qcom drivers

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2018-12-18 at 00:20 +0530, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:51 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > git history is used by default for the N: entries and that can
> > cause whitespace style commit authors to be cc'd on various changes
> > to matched files.
> 
> Is that by design?

yes.

> Or can we fix get_maintainer.pl to be less
> sensitive to whitespace authorship?

Use get_maintainer.pl's --nogit-fallback option