Re: get_maintainer.pl bug? (was: Re: [PATCH 0/8] linker-section array fix and clean ups)

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-11-04 at 10:16 +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Running scrips/get_maintainer.pl on this series [1] gave the wrong
> address for Nick Desaulniers:
> 
> 	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:1/2=50%,commit_signer:1/8=12%)
> 
> It seems he recently misspelled his address in a reviewed-by tag to
> commit 33def8498fdd ("treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo)
> to __section("foo")") and that is now being picked up by the script.
> 
> I guess that's to be considered a bug?

No, that's a feature.  If it's _really_ a problem, (and I don't
think it really is), that's what .mailmap is for.