On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11. Apr 2024, at 17:25, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> It's tricky to know which tree a patch like this would go through. > > The patch is based on the mainline tree. Should I have sent it directly to > Linus then? > > I'm relatively new here and therefore only sent it to the corresponding mailing > lists. It's not just about mailing lists, it's also about changes flowing in to mainline via a plethora of subsystem and driver repos and branches. See MAINTAINERS. Or this old LWN page [1]. The development happens in those branches, and if you make treewide changes like this, it's not clear who should take it, and you also risk unnecessary conflicts if those places get modified in the individual branches. So it might just be easiest to split this up to smaller patches sent to the appropriate lists. Anyway, all that said, Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> on the i915 changes here. BR, Jani. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/737094/ -- Jani Nikula, Intel