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    SubjectRe: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address across the kernel
    On 10/06/11 13:11, Joe Perches wrote:
    > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:05 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
    >> On 10/06/11 12:55, Paul Mundt wrote:
    >>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:12:50AM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
    >>>> I no longer work at Bluewater Systems. Update my email address accordingly.
    >>> Is this sort of churn really necessary? By all means, update your
    >>> MAINTAINERS entry accordingly, but the rest of it is really pretty
    >>> pointless. People are invariably going to consult MAINTAINERS one way or
    >>> another and get the updated value accordingly. For the rest of these you
    >>> are just as well off ripping out the email address completely.
    > I agree.
    >
    >> The MAINTAINERS entry for me only cover the arm ep93xx arch. Prior to
    >> this patch, if I do (for example)
    >>
    >> ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/power/ds2782_battery.c
    >>
    >> It gives my old Bluewater email. With this change it gives my gmail
    >> account. Not sure if that is because it extracts the email from the
    >> source or from the git commit?
    > It's the git commit.
    >
    > get_maintainer uses the name and address in the first seen
    > commit matching on the full name where possible.
    >
    > You can override this with --noremove-duplicates
    >
    > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --noremove-duplicates -f drivers/power/ds2782_battery.c
    > Anton Vorontsov<cbouatmailru@gmail.com> (commit_signer:4/5=80%)
    > Ryan Mallon<ryan@bluewatersys.com> (commit_signer:3/5=60%)
    > Andrew Morton<akpm@linux-foundation.org> (commit_signer:1/5=20%)
    > Peter Huewe<peterhuewe@gmx.de> (commit_signer:1/5=20%)
    > Mike Rapoport<mike@compulab.co.il> (commit_signer:1/5=20%)
    > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
    Okay, what is the correct fix then so that people get the right email
    address for me?

    ~Ryan





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