On 06/24/2013 12:47 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > 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 > > Oh, ok.. Thanks for the explanation and the tip! Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat -- 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
