On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 10:56:55AM -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Fri 2021-06-11 @ 10:23:01 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:37:27PM -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> > 
> > > If the user creates a .get_maintainer.ignore file, make sure it is consulted
> > > and obeyed for *all* emails discovered by the script.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> > > index e3b41616c9..8c0fb8656e 100755
> > > --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> > > +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> > > @@ -2435,6 +2435,7 @@ sub merge_email {
> > >  
> > >      for (@_) {
> > >  	my ($address, $role) = @$_;
> > > +	next if (ignore_email_address($address));
> > >  	if (!$saw{$address}) {
> > >  	    if ($output_roles) {
> > >  		push(@lines, "$address ($role)");
> > 
> > This got me to check and see that yes, our copy of get_maintainers.pl is
> > out of date from Linux.  And in fact, a re-sync will let us add a
> > .get_maintainer.conf file and use upstream a lot more closely as it now
> > has logic to find all MAINTAINERS files in a tree.
> > 
> > But this change isn't upstream.  Please work with Joe Perches upstream
> > to get this change accepted and it'll flow down to us and not get
> > overwritten when I forget it was an intentional change :)  Thanks!
> 
> Thanks for the tip!
> 
> I ran my patches through the kernel's latest get_maintainer.pl script and it
> correctly removes email entries that are listed in my ~/.get_maintainer.ignore
> file without any changes required. Therefore a re-sync would appear to fix the
> issue I found.
> 
> I can take a look at the re-sync if you wish? It's unclear to me whether
> you're looking into the re-sync or not.

Please do.  I took a quick attempt at it, but I couldn't convince it to
use all of our MAINTAINERS files, by default, for some reason.  Thanks!

-- 
Tom