On 03/01/2022 17:29, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 04:29:56PM +0100, Neil Armstrong wrote: >>>> Would it be possible we also receive the notification when those patches are applied ? >>>> Maybe a MAINTAINERS entry is missing so we can receive them ? >>> >>> That would be good, so that people can review the patches. Otherwise I >>> have to just guess :) >> >> exact, I naively thought it would be matched in the: >> N: meson >> entry but it seems an proper entry for drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c is needed. > > Try it, does that work when running get_maintainer.pl on this patch? Yes it does work, so no problem here > >>>> It would help me track those TTY and USB patches more easily. >>> >>> I recommend MAINTAINERS entries for drivers that are not listed and that >>> you care about seeing the changes for. >> >> This is why we have a regex to match these. > > Great, the submitter should have used that. > >> I can submit a patch to have a proper entry if the regex is not enough/appropriate. > > Whatever makes the tools work is fine with me. > >> BTW can you point us how are selected the recipients of the notification messages you send ? > > For when I apply a patch, everyone on the ack/signed-off-by/reviewed-by > list gets a response. I do not hit mailing lists with the notification > as that's just too much noise. > > Been doing it this way for well over a decade now, nothing new here :) Ok right, no problem, other maintainers (e.g: net, sound) and default b4 behavior is to send notification to same recipient as original patch. It it fits everyone for a decade, no need to change ! We have very low patches for tty & usb anyway Neil > > thanks, > > greg k-h >
