Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: get_maintainer: steer people away from using file paths

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 09:23:12 -0700

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 08:43:30 -0700 Joe Perches wrote:
> > Print a warning when someone tries to use -f and remove
> > the "auto-guessing" of file paths.  
> 
> Nack on that bit.
> My recollection is it's Linus' preferred mechanism.

Let Linus speak for himself, hopefully he's okay with throwing
in the -f.

BTW get_maintainer is central to our ML-based development process.
I think the patches to get_maintainer and checkpatch should flow
to workflows@.