Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: allow "odd fixes"

[Markus Armbruster]

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 02:35:09PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> We have a bunch of modules in "Odd fixes"
>> status, scripts/get_maintainer.pl ignores that.
>> 
>> Reported-by: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
>
> Actually, it does not ignore that.
> What it does it list status as "odd fixer".

Like this:

    $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f --no-git-fallback hw/ide/core.c 
    Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> (odd fixer:IDE)
    Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> (odd fixer:IDE)

What's wrong with that?

> So this boils down to the fact that we use
> "odd fixer" incorrectly.
>
> I will apply this for now but maybe we should
> change MAINTAINERS switching all "Odd fixes" to
> "Maintained" and then revert this patch.
>
> Thoughts?

What exactly does this patch fix?