On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 11:14 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> Yep. I personally never use the get_maintainers script. I first check
> the MAINTAINERS file. If the subsystem I'm working on exists there, I
> only email those that are listed there, including any mailing lists that
> are mentioned (as well as LKML). If it's not listed, I then do a git log
> and see who does the most sign offs to changes there, and to what kind
> of changes. I usually ignore the trivial stuff. 

I also tend to suggest doing git-blame to see who touched the code being
changed last.

As a maintainer I frequently get to fwd/bounce patches because of
missing CCs like that.