On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 11:20, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> You are special,
So my mother tells me.
> you presumably use it to find who to report
> regressions to, and who to pull into conversations.
Yes. So what happens is that I get cc'd on bug reports for various
issues, and particularly for oops reports I basically have a function
name to grep for (maybe a pathname if it went through the full
decoding).
I'm NOT interested in having to either remember all people off-hand,
or going through the MAINTAINERS file by hand.
> This tool is primarily used by _developers_ to find _maintainers_.
Well, maybe.
But even if that is true, I don't see why you hate the pathname thing
even for that case. I bet developers use it for that exact same
reason, ie they are modifying a file, and they go "I want to know who
the maintainer for this file is".
I do not understand why you think a patch is somehow magically more
important or relevant than a filename.
Linus
