Since a number of contributors to DPDK have submitted patches to DPDK
under more than one email address, we should maintain a mailmap file
to properly track their commits using "shortlog",
and to do accurate automatic Cc with "get_maintainer.pl".
It also helps fix up any mangled names, for example, with
surname/firstname reversed, or with incorrect capitalization.
By keeping this file in the DPDK repository,
rather than committers maintaining their own copies,
it allows individual contributors to edit it
to update their own email address preferences if so desired.
While at it, update our checkpatches.sh script
and add some documentation to help new contributors.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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