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

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Sep 27 2022 - 14:15:09 EST


On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 06:39:27PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, get_maintainer.pl does use .mailmap by default already.

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

Sure, that makes sense here too. I just sent the .mailmap patch because
Wedson does have other patches in the kernel too, so it wasn't just for
this case.

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Kees Cook