The patch titled scripts/get_maintainer.pl: don't search MAINTAINERS for keywords or emails has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is scripts-get_maintainerpl-dont-search-maintainers-for-keywords-or-emails.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: scripts/get_maintainer.pl: don't search MAINTAINERS for keywords or emails From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Keyword matching uses K: patterns from MAINTAINERS, so if looking for the MAINTAINERS maintainer, don't search MAINTAINERS for pattern matches. MAINTAINERS also has rather a lot of email addresses and is easily searched using grep "^M:", so skip it. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/get_maintainer.pl~scripts-get_maintainerpl-dont-search-maintainers-for-keywords-or-emails scripts/get_maintainer.pl --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl~scripts-get_maintainerpl-dont-search-maintainers-for-keywords-or-emails +++ a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl @@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) { } if ($from_filename) { push(@files, $file); - if (-f $file && ($keywords || $file_emails)) { + if ($file ne "MAINTAINERS" && -f $file && ($keywords || $file_emails)) { open(my $f, '<', $file) or die "$P: Can't open $file: $!\n"; my $text = do { local($/) ; <$f> }; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch maintainers-add-irq-subsystem.patch kernelh-add-minmax3-macros.patch kernelh-add-minmax3-macros-fix.patch replace-nested-max-min-macros-with-maxmin3-macro.patch scripts-get_maintainerpl-add-git-blame-rolestats-authored-lines-information.patch scripts-get_maintainerpl-use-correct-indentation.patch scripts-get_maintainerpl-dont-search-maintainers-for-keywords-or-emails.patch scripts-get_maintainerpl-add-default-git-fallback-remove-default-git.patch scripts-get_maintainerpl-use-get_maintainerconf-from-then-home-then-scripts.patch checkpatch-add-check-for-space-after-struct-union-and-enum.patch checkpatch-add-additional-attribute-defines.patch scripts-checkpatchpl-add-warnings-for-static-char-that-could-be-static-const-char.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html