On Sat, 3 Jun 2023 08:14:47 -0700 James Seo wrote: > +You should always notify the appropriate subsystem maintainer(s) and list(s) s/notify/specify as recipients/ ? notify sounds like an out of band ping, maybe just to me. > +about any patch to code that they maintain. Identify them by looking through > +the MAINTAINERS file and the source code revision history, and by using the > +script scripts/get_maintainer.pl (pass paths to your patches as arguments to > +scripts/get_maintainer.pl). Send your patch e-mail "To:" those maintainers and > +"Cc:" those lists. There's a handful of people who run get_maintainer on the file paths, ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl net/core/dev.c rather than ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl 0001-my.patch This leads to ignoring Fixes tags, and authors of fixed commits should really be CCed. Since we're touching this paragraph maybe we can massage the wording a bit: (pass paths to your patches generated by git format-patch as arguments to scripts/get_maintainer.pl) > +If you cannot find a maintainer for the subsystem you are working on, Andrew > +Morton (akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) serves as a maintainer of last resort. Also, Thanks for the patch, btw, we also see To-less patches a couple times a month on netdev@ :(
