On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 2:45 PM Ahmed S. Darwish <a.darwish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 Thanks so much for the details, Ahmed!
