Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Coping with the new-developer flood

On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 10:32:40PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> Most subsystems take patches against -next and backport the Fixes.
> A couple have a tree for the -rc branch and want patches that apply
> specifically to that.  These are net, bpf and certain Intel networking
> drivers.  These three subsystems want people to put in the subject
> which tree they are working against like [PATCH net-next]"

I think it's at least as common if not more common to take fixes against
Linus' tree or the tree's current fixes branch and then merge them up
into the development code as needed.  There are a few trees constantly
cherry picking things around but it's a very small proportion of trees.

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