Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2 3/3] libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: Maintainer Entry Profile

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.linuxfoundation.lists.ksummit-discuss,dev.linux.lists.ksummit,dev.linux.lists.nvdimm,org.01.lists.linux-nvdimm,org.kernel.vger.bpf,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <20190916070101.GE18977@kadam>
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 05:44:39PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> One pet peeve I have is that people are pretty bad at indicating the
> intended target tree. I often ask for it in private mail but the
> practice doesn't seem to stick. I spend a ton of time guessing whether a
> patch is a fix for a new feature in the x+1 queue or a fix for the
> current release. It is not always obvious.

The Fixes tag doesn't help?

Of course, you've never asked me or anyone on kernel-newbies that
question.  We don't normally know the answer either.  I do always try to
figure it out for networking, but it's kind of a pain in the butt and I
mess up surpisingly often for how much effort I put into getting it
right.

regards,
dan carpenter
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