[RESEND PATCH] modpost: don't add a trailing wildcard for OF module aliases

Javier Martinez Canillas javier at osg.samsung.com
Tue Dec 8 18:02:05 PST 2015


On 12/08/2015 11:00 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>>>
>>> I sent this patch before [0] but was never picked. MAINTAINERS doesn't
>>> say who should manage patches to file2alias so maybe I didn't add the
>>> right person to the cc list.
>>
>> z:/usr/src/git26> perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f scripts/mod 
>> Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> (commit_signer:18/27=67%)
>>
> 
> Yes, I use get_maintainer.pl but usually with the --no-git-fallback since
> the --git-fallback option tends to be too noisy and people complain that
> are cc'ed on random patches just because they touched a file in the past.
> 
> IOW, there is no way to know only by looking at get_maintainer.pl output
> if Rusty has only made a lot of changes to that repo or if he acts as a

err.. I meant s/repo/directory

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America



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