On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 12:00:07PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
Mark Brown wrote:
It's getting more common these days, companies want their address to end up in git but it's not so good for upstream mail for whatever reason (historically a lot of it has been Exchange related, though that's not the case for me). It's more noticable for people applying patches than for people sending them.
There is no general rule that MAINTAINERS address wins over others. Many developers use other addresses primarily than the old address on MAINTAINERS file. Your case is rather rare, I'd say.
It seems the wider use get_maintianer.pl has changed that - people seem more dilligent about updating their addresses now (especially if the one that's there is a problem). I do also have to say that this complaint typically also comes along with people not CCing Liam which tends to suggest that they didn't consult MAINTAINERS at all.
Sure, but if you're going to use one I'd expect the MAINTAINERS address to win - I did have someone the other day using my Wolfson address still since they were going off signoffs and the thing they were working on wasn't that actively developed.
MAINTAINERS file isn't always updated frequently enough, too. So, at best, one would compare the time the address was used and decide which address has a higher chance to reach.
Well, in my case it's very rare that a mail from my linaro.org address goes upstream...