Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 2015 11:59:09 +0100 | Subject | get_maintainer.pl and too many names (was: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] i2c: uniphier: add two I2C controller drivers for UniPhier SoC platform) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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Hi Joe,
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Masahiro Yamada >> <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote: >> > 2015-10-26 17:17 GMT+09:00 Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>: >> >>> This series adds two I2C controller drivers. >> >>> (they are completely different IPs.) >> >>> >> >>> The first one is a very simple FIFO-less I2C controller, >> >>> which is used on some older UniPhier SoCs. >> >>> >> >>> The other one is higher-performance I2C controller with TX/RX FIFO, >> >>> used on newer UniPhier SoCs. >> >> >> >> And you have sent this to me because ... ? >> > >> > >> > No special reason. >> > >> > >> > I sent this series to linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org. >> > >> > I guess you were automatically CC'ed by scripts/get_maintainer.pl. >> > >> > Using get_maintainer.pl is a normal process when sending patches, I think. >> >> Please use common sense. It doesn't make much sense to CC everybody who >> ever made a minor edit to an affected file. >> >> If checkpatch comes up with more than 5 names, this should ring a bell.
get_maintainer.pl, of course
> +1
Would it be difficult to let get_maintainer.pl print a warning if more than 5 names come up?
Thanks!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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