Re: [PATCH 5.5 133/150] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: deprioritize old Fixes: addresses

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Thu Feb 27 2020 - 11:18:50 EST


On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:20:32AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-02-27 at 14:37 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit 0ef82fcefb99300ede6f4d38a8100845b2dc8e30 upstream.
>
> I think adding just about any checkpatch patch to stable a bit silly.
> Including patches to checkpatch.
>

On the other hand, Greg is one of the worst affected by the old behavior
since he has so many old email addresses and he's also the stable
maintainer.

regards,
dan carpenter