On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, Joseph Salisbury wrote: > > Each section in the series file appears to have a title. > Is there a decoder ring or something similar to understand what the > section titles mean? For example, '# Applied upstream' is pretty > obvious, and can be confirmed by looking at the mainline tree. > However, I see sections such as '# Posted an applied', '#Posted', '# > Post', etc. How can one understand the meaning of these titles? > Well, 'Posted' is what it says. For example the printk work, or "[PATCH net-next 0/9] Try to simplify the gnet_stats and remove qdisc->running sequence counter.", at netdev, etc., etc. Maybe the mainline maintainers have no comments and it's merged as-is, maybe some additions are requested and some development is pending or in-progress, and so on. > The best way to learn may be to write some documentation about the > patch set. I will search the wiki for some hints on activities in > that regard. The rate of change is really quite quick. AFAIK Sebastian already updates the quilt series file for each -rcX-rt development -rt release, so that's the latest "source of truth" you can follow. Any more details than what's in that series file, you can search the patch subject lines at https://lore.kernel.org, which can recently do a "global" search inside all subsystems mailing lists in one shot. This will usually give you all the nitty-gritty details. Good luck, -- Ahmed S. Darwish Linutronix GmbH
