get_maintainer.pl and arch/arm64/configs/defconfig (was Re: [PATCH] arm64: defconfig: remove SLIM_QCOM_CTRL )

[Mikko Rapeli]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 04:30:04PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 23/12/2025 16:27, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 23/12/2025 15:36, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I sent to addresses reported by get_maintainers.pl.
> >>>
> >>> There is no output of get_maintainers.pl for this file. It's one of
> >>> cases where script does not work (I think already documented in
> >>> maintainer soc profile).
> >>
> >> Sorry, I don't get it. This issue is a generic one since now arm64 defconfig
> >> has one unknown option. Tools which check kernel config for unknown options
> >> trigger warnings when arm64 defconfig is used.
> >>
> >> If get_maintainers.pl is broken for this file, then please fix it. I don't
> >> know how to fix it.
> > 
> > No one knows, partially because it is very, very difficult task, that's
> > the problem.
> 
> Ah, wait, it was fixed already! You just run get_maintainers incorrectly
> - You cannot use git fallback here, it's pointless. You could have read
> the get_maintainers.pl output.

Could you mention what is the correct way to run get_maintainer.pl then?

I don't contribute patches to kernel on a regular basis so of course
I can make a lot of mistakes but I tried to do the right thing:

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl arch/arm64/configs/defconfig 
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org> (commit_signer:27/70=39%,authored:4/70=6%,added_lines:13/116=11%,removed_lines:7/43=16%)
Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson at oss.qualcomm.com> (commit_signer:14/70=20%)
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be> (commit_signer:13/70=19%)
Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> (commit_signer:10/70=14%)
Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com> (commit_signer:8/70=11%)
Eric Biggers <ebiggers at kernel.org> (authored:5/70=7%,removed_lines:5/43=12%)
"André Draszik" <andre.draszik at linaro.org> (authored:4/70=6%)
"Nícolas F. R. A. Prado" <nfraprado at collabora.com> (added_lines:9/116=8%)
Andrea della Porta <andrea.porta at suse.com> (added_lines:6/116=5%)
Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli at collabora.com> (added_lines:6/116=5%)
Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier at foss.st.com> (added_lines:6/116=5%)
Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj at bp.renesas.com> (removed_lines:23/43=53%)
Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx at renesas.com> (removed_lines:3/43=7%)
linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org (open list)

and collect the emails from this output and fed them to git send-email.

Cheers,

-Mikko