> AFAICT in practice it's a mandatory requirement in I²C subsys (in the > past you hadn't accepted a patch from us without a tag from the > maintainer) which makes it equal to sending PR by a maintainer. PR Right. I require a tag from the driver maintainer. > makes less burden since subsys maintainer don't need to run many tools > or a tool many times to get the pile of patches. I had driver maintainers who found it difficult to have a public tree to pull from or forgot how to send properly prepared pull requests. They were happy to send Rev-by, though. And I am happy with that, too. At least in I2C, picking up patches is small work compared to the actual review.
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