[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] devtools: disable fixes authors in get maintainers

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Nov 2 00:19:04 CET 2021


On Mon,  1 Nov 2021 13:35:33 +0000
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:

> 'get_maintainer.pl' by default returns authors that has fixes in
> relevant code, to reduce the output only maintainers from MAINTAINERS
> file, disabling fixes authors, by making '--no-fixes' default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>

Isn't it better to send to more people on patches rather than less.
There could be cases where a patch reverts a change and the original
author never gets notified after this.

Could you give an example? 


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