i wrote a patch that got rejected because it did not apply cleanly to the tree of greg kh https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/8/18/304 the file i modified is drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtl8192c_recv.h get_maintainer.pl gave me the list of emails to send the patch to, and i used it for that purpose. the file Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst says to see the T: entry for the subsystem in MAINTAINERS to find the right tree to base the patch on. i tried searching through MAINTAINERS and found that there are a few subsystems that start with RTL8*. greg kh is listed a few times in MAINTAINERS, so i'm not able to find the exact tree to start with by looking for the maintainer. is there a systematic way of finding the subsystem, given a file? in addition, how do i know what branch to use? the T: entries have a repo, but not a branch name. thanks! :wq, danny _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
