@jani @kees it should default to showing maintainers and reviewers only. The git stuff is really silly and unhelpful.

Maybe if you run it on a patch with tags add those people too...

@ljs @kees

Yeah, returning stuff from git history should only be a fallback for files without maintainers. I get my fair share of these Cc's and I'm always like WTF why am I included.

IMO it should also only include the most specific maintainers by default. If you have the maintainer for file foo/bar/baz, don't include the maintainer for foo/bar or foo.

@jani @kees the whole inheritance thing is kinda broken actually see [0] for an example of this being broken :)

Stuff lower in hierarchy that potentially impacts stuff higher up is not cc'd to those subject to it, stuff higher up does include lower-down etc.

I guess we need to distinguish between 'anything in this glob that's not already handled elsewhere' vs. 'I want to be cc'd on everything here'.

cc: @vbabka who loves editing get_maintainer.pl :P

https://lore.kernel.org/all/2026030820[email protected]/T/#u