Re: [PATCH 5.5 133/150] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: deprioritize old Fixes: addresses

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:18:29PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:20:32AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2020-02-27 at 14:37 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > From: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > commit 0ef82fcefb99300ede6f4d38a8100845b2dc8e30 upstream.
> > 
> > I think adding just about any checkpatch patch to stable a bit silly.
> > Including patches to checkpatch.
> > 
> 
> On the other hand, Greg is one of the worst affected by the old behavior
> since he has so many old email addresses and he's also the stable
> maintainer.

Exactly, lots of people still do development against the latest released
kernel, which is 5.5 here...

thanks,

greg kh-