[PATCH 0/4] Adding support to load secure firmware for HS devices

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com
Tue May 21 18:35:55 CEST 2024


On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 10:21:45AM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 07:12:09PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 08:59:17PM +0530, Kumar, Udit wrote:
> > > On 5/21/2024 7:59 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 04:26:44PM +0530, Udit Kumar wrote:

...

> > > > Are you Cc'ing random people with this?
> > > > Please don't do it.
> > > 
> > > I used names names popped up while running get_maintainer.pl script of
> > > u-boot
> > > 
> > > your email id was there for patch-3 of this series
> > 
> > Nice, the tool is broken. Please, work with the respective people to fix a tool
> > or to tune it to avoid such mistakes in the future.
> > 
> > (Hint: I would first disable Git fallback completely)
> 
> So you were cc'd thanks to:
> commit 5e541a05f70296dbad07fc1f4e8678ad207bb476
> Author: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Date:   Sun Jul 30 21:01:45 2023 -0600
> 
>     env: Use include/env for text-environment includes
>     
>     The 'environment' word is too long. We mostly use 'env' in U-Boot, so use
>     that as the name of the include directory too.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>     Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com> # Intel Edison

Yeah, and it even explicitly stated what I reviewed from that code...

>     Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> 
> And, I'm sorry because there are other contributors who get upset when git
> fallback doesn't find them (because it also ages out after a year).
> In this case there's not even a "tweak the threshold" option since
> there's only a single commit to the file so you're in 100% of them.

Just an example of false positive by get_maintainer.pl :-(
And a confirmation of what I said — tool is broken.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko




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