From 6343f6b71f83af8ebfc6f9740d1d74f2db88e6b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:10:37 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] get_maintainer: exclude MAINTAINERS file(s) from
--git-fallback
MAINTAINERS files generally have no specific maintainer but are updated by
individuals for subsystems all over the source tree.
Exclude MAINTAINERS file(s) from --git-fallback searches so the unlucky
individuals that update the files the most are not shown by default.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2bacb0a9c06fbb6d56a43bf930e808c74243c908.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 5a36354a38cc..2075db0c08b8 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -957,8 +957,10 @@ sub get_maintainers {
foreach my $file (@files) {
if ($email &&
- ($email_git || ($email_git_fallback &&
- !$exact_pattern_match_hash{$file}))) {
+ ($email_git ||
+ ($email_git_fallback &&
+ $file !~ /MAINTAINERS$/ &&
+ !$exact_pattern_match_hash{$file}))) {
vcs_file_signoffs($file);
}
if ($email && $email_git_blame) {