Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address acrossthe kernel

[Ryan Mallon]

On 10/06/11 13:11, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:05 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> > On 10/06/11 12:55, Paul Mundt wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:12:50AM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> > > > I no longer work at Bluewater Systems. Update my email address accordingly.
> > > Is this sort of churn really necessary? By all means, update your
> > > MAINTAINERS entry accordingly, but the rest of it is really pretty
> > > pointless. People are invariably going to consult MAINTAINERS one way or
> > > another and get the updated value accordingly. For the rest of these you
> > > are just as well off ripping out the email address completely.
> I agree.
>
> > The MAINTAINERS entry for me only cover the arm ep93xx arch. Prior to
> > this patch, if I do (for example)
> >
> > ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/power/ds2782_battery.c
> >
> > It gives my old Bluewater email. With this change it gives my gmail
> > account. Not sure if that is because it extracts the email from the
> > source or from the git commit?
> It's the git commit.
>
> get_maintainer uses the name and address in the first seen
> commit matching on the full name where possible.
>
> You can override this with --noremove-duplicates
>
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --noremove-duplicates -f drivers/power/ds2782_battery.c
> Anton Vorontsov<cbouatmailru@xxxxxxxxx>  (commit_signer:4/5=80%)
> Ryan Mallon<ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  (commit_signer:3/5=60%)
> Andrew Morton<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  (commit_signer:1/5=20%)
> Peter Huewe<peterhuewe@xxxxxx>  (commit_signer:1/5=20%)
> Mike Rapoport<mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  (commit_signer:1/5=20%)
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)
Okay, what is the correct fix then so that people get the right email 
address for me?

~Ryan



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