On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 3:45 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-09-12 at 15:26 -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > > A problem with MAINTAINERS is there is no way to tell who applies > > patches for a given path vs. anyone else listed. > > try the --scm option That kind of helps if the maintainer has listed a tree, but gives wrong results if not. And you still have to figure out who owns which tree. That's not hard, but it's not scriptable. IMO, we should reserve 'M:' for maintainers with trees and use 'R:' driver maintainers. That's redefining M as "maintainer" rather than "mail patches to". You could still have both for a entry so you can know who to go bug when your patch hasn't been applied. Rob
