Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: hinic: Add control command support for VF PMD driver in DPDK

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 08:37:44 -0700

On Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:37:39 +0200 Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Nov 2022, Cai Huoqing <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > On 01 11月 22 12:46:32, Jani Nikula wrote:  
> >> Out of curiosity, what exactly compelled you to Cc me on this particular
> >> patch? I mean there aren't a whole lot of places in the kernel that
> >> would be more off-topic for me. :)  
> > run ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl this patch in net-next
> > then get your email
> > Jani Nikula <[email-masked]> (commit_signer:1/8=12%)
> > Maybe you have some commits in net subsystem ?  
> 
> A grand total of 3 commits in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ two years ago,
> adding 3 const keywords, nowhere near of what you're changing.
> 
> get_maintainer.pl is utterly broken to suggest I should be Cc'd.

Apparently is because you acked commit 8581fd402a0c ("treewide: Add
missing includes masked by cgroup -> bpf dependency").
This random driver is obviously was not the part you were acking but
heuristics :/

Cai Huoqing FWIW we recommend adding --git-min-percent 25 when running
get_maintainers, otherwise there's all sorts of noise that gets in.