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SubjectRe: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update my maintainer entries to reorder email addresses
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On 5/26/20 5:33 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 16:54 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> On 5/26/20 4:27 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 11:04 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
>>>> On 5/22/20 8:26 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 2020-05-22 at 20:19 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
>>>>>> get_maintainer.pl picks only the first email address found in the file.
>>>>>> Reorder my email addresses so it finds my linuxfoundation.org email.
>>>>>
>>>>> OK.
>>> []
>>>> Sadly, people that don't run get_maintainer.pl, leave alone running it
>>>> with --noremove-duplicates option. So your suggestion doesn't really
>>>> help me.
>>>>
>>>> My preference is to get patches to both Inboxes if possible which isn't
>>>> possible unless -noremove-duplicate is default. Having this option as
>>>> default probably will annoy lot of people . So I am not asking for
>>>> that.
>>>>
>>>> That being said, I don't understand your comment. Are you recommending
>>>> using just one email in these entries?
>>>
>>> Yes. And maybe set an autoforward rule in that email to
>>> forward the received email to your other address.
>>>
>>>
>> Sounds good.
>
> Another option would be to write your name
> slightly differently in the 2 entries.
>
> For instance, add "(LF)" to the linuxfoundation.org entry like:
>
> CPU POWER MONITORING SUBSYSTEM
> M: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.com>
> M: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
> M: Shuah Khan (LF) <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
> L: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> S: Maintained
> F: tools/power/cpupower/
>
> and then the get_maintainer.pl script won't
> collapse the equally named but with different
> email addresses into a single entry:
>

I like this option.
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f tools/power/cpupower/
> Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.com> (maintainer:CPU POWER MONITORING SUBSYSTEM)
> Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> (maintainer:CPU POWER MONITORING SUBSYSTEM)
> "Shuah Khan (LF)" <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> (maintainer:CPU POWER MONITORING SUBSYSTEM)
> linux-pm@vger.kernel.org (open list:CPU POWER MONITORING SUBSYSTEM)
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
>

Thanks for the idea. I will rework the patch and send it.

thanks,
-- Shuah


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