Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] staging: rtl8723bs: Code cleanup in drivers/staging/rtl8723bs

On Thu, Apr 09, 2026 at 06:55:28PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2026 at 05:44:24PM +0200, Luka Gejak wrote:
> > On April 9, 2026 5:39:58 PM GMT+02:00, Prithvi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >On Thu, Apr 09, 2026 at 05:02:16PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Apr 09, 2026 at 08:20:45PM +0530, Prithvi wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > >> But next time, trim your "who do I cc:" list, as it is _way_ too big,
> > >> how did you generate it?
> > >
> > >Understood...here I used all the email addresses generated from the 
> > >get_maintainer.pl script. Next time, I'll be sure to trim it down just to 
> > >maintainers and reviewers.
> > 
> > Upon testing myself, get_maintainer.pl doesn't list all of those 
> > people when ran on a directory or a file in staging.
> 
> Also you may check my script [1] that I use on everyday basis to send patches
> to Linux kernel. It has some heuristics that showed to be almost suitable.
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/andy-shev/home-bin-tools/blob/master/ge2maintainer.sh
> 
> -- 
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
> 

Yes I directly ran the get_maintainer.pl script on the patches, without any 
flags due to which I got a very long 'to' and 'cc' list for the patches.

Thanks Andy for sharing the script - it is indeed optimized for this purpose :)

Best Regards,
Prithvi