Hi Tom, On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 04:43:29PM -0700, Tony Dinh wrote: > > > Hi Tom and Stefan, > > > > It looks like we have some problem with ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl. I > > was the author for the Marvell A38x DDR4 port (Commit 54a08c4), but > > curiously I did not receive patch email from Andrew. So I ran the > > script, > > To explain, there's a time-limit on how far git history is considered, > and so your last change to the file in question pushed you off of the > list of recipients. To answer a possible follow-up question from you, > I've gotten complaints from contributors previously about being cc'd on > patches for something they did a long time ago. The answer is that you > need an entry in the MAINTAINERS file somewhere to match on a given file > patterns to always be considered for a patch. I *think* MAINTAINERS > files in drivers/ would work with get_maintainers.pl and we just don't > have any yet.
Thanks for the explanation! I was not aware of that time-limit at all. All the best, Tony > > -- > Tom
