Hi Ricardo, On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 04:03:37PM +0100, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote: > Hello Sakari > > I always try to send the patches to the mails found by > get-maintainer.pl, I thought it was unpolite not doint so :). In the > future I will try to send the mails only to the media list. Yeah, it seems get_maintainer.pl -f ... gives you LKML, and trying out a few random files, it seems to give that for all of them. I don't think it's intended that every single patch goes to LKML however. Here's what Documentation/SubmittingPatches has to say on the topic: ------8<------ Look through the MAINTAINERS file and the source code, and determine if your change applies to a specific subsystem of the kernel, with an assigned maintainer. If so, e-mail that person. The script scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be very useful at this step. If no maintainer is listed, or the maintainer does not respond, send your patch to the primary Linux kernel developer's mailing list, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Most kernel developers monitor this e-mail list, and can comment on your changes. Do not send more than 15 patches at once to the vger mailing lists!!! ------8<------ So, patches should be sent to LKML if no other relevant list can be found. But then, it goes on to state that: ------8<------ Linus Torvalds is the final arbiter of all changes accepted into the Linux kernel. His e-mail address is <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. He gets a lot of e-mail, so typically you should do your best to -avoid- sending him e-mail. Patches which are bug fixes, are "obvious" changes, or similarly require little discussion should be sent or CC'd to Linus. Patches which require discussion or do not have a clear advantage should usually be sent first to linux-kernel. Only after the patch is discussed should the patch then be submitted to Linus. ------8<------ Could this be one of the reason Linus gets lots of mail? :-) > I don't have a tree, so please do as you wish. I'll apply that to my tree. -- Kind regards, Sakari Ailus e-mail: sakari.ailus@xxxxxx XMPP: sailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
