On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 00:25 +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > On 06/23/2013 11:47 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 07:13:33PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: [] > >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c [] > Honestly, I don't know. Let's CC the author of that code (David Daney). > I wonder why get_maintainer.pl didn't generate his name for this file, > even though the entire file is almost made up of his commits alone! Because by default, get_maintainer looks for a matching file entry in MAINTAINERS. Failing that, it looks at one year of git history. In this case, no work has been done on the file for quite awhile. --git-blame can be added to the get_maintainer.pl command line to look for % of authorship by line and commit count. Adding --git-blame can take a long time to run, that's why it's not on by default. Also, very old history can give invalid email addresses as people move around and email addresses decay. If you always want to find original authors, you could use a .get_maintainer.conf file with --git-blame in it. $ time ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --git-blame -f drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-tx.c Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (supporter:STAGING SUBSYSTEM,commits:4/16=25%) David Daney <ddaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (authored lines:711/725=98%,commits:13/16=81%) Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (commits:11/16=69%) Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> (commits:2/16=12%) Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (commits:1/16=6%) devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list:STAGING SUBSYSTEM) linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list) real 0m16.853s user 0m16.088s sys 0m0.444s -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
