Re: [PATCH v10 27/27] MAINTAINERS: Rust

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Sep 27 2022 - 12:39:55 EST


On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 05:53:12PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 5:34 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > How about just fixing up the emails in these patches, which will keep us
> > from having bouncing ones for those of us who do not use the .mailmap
> > file.
>
> Sorry about that...
>
> One question: if somebody wants to keep the Signed-off-bys and/or Git
> authorship information using the old email for the patches (except the
> `MAINTAINERS` entry), is that OK? (e.g. maybe because they did most of
> the work in their previous company).

For known-broken emails, it's a pain as later on invocations of
scripts/get_maintainer.pl will use those emails.

So please just use known-good addresses to start with.

thanks,

greg k-h