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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspam-User: X-Stat-Signature: zeicb4iefi5neenqi68srabiqiey65rn X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: B9EFE160009 X-Rspamd-Server: rspam04 X-HE-Tag: 1767968222-296745 X-HE-Meta: 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 4+xjUWwF 8Nz+XRh0C7qQLKBC340SjiqKgz/F4LL/H1DLVgq1ZFu5sWqFuMOM27syFnW8dB3oGTCmrH5ihY04YtPnr8dA8gGxKuDyMQ+sf/3d7VYqbPgbL+ey3MkAGYHK71DjSq5qPtpO7KZa/CJSMSS0tiASBQvN/1ehUKMG/Xzs50iPoGiiDXyf312jZjy4okDVWQBq3376+JFfeCcdiu2So5gsKK8MWWZr/Meh8lhrmJBkdbFRoExoeuK5fQjwwbynletZl/VT4 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 1/8/26 07:26, SeongJae Park wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 21:52:25 +0000 Pedro Falcato wrote: > > [...] >> I understand your point. I don't think anyone wants to see patches falling >> through the cracks. But we also don't want patches to get applied without >> any review. > > I can also clearly see both Andrew and Lorenzo are trying their best to make > Linux kernel better with only good faiths. I always appreciate their such > efforts. And both their opinions make sense to me in their ways. > >> >> Perhaps it's time to deploy something like Patchwork to help track >> outstanding patches? > > Nooo... I'm too dumb and lazy to learn how to use Patchwork... > > I believe we always have rooms to improve, though. One way to resolve concerns > raised here would be asking Andrew, someone, or some tools pinging relevant > reviewers of patches that Andrew wants to add to mm tree. But I think that > might be too much request for a signle human, especially for mm, which is a > huge subsystem that many reviewers exist. And because the reviewers have their > own tastes, the solution may not fit very well to all the reviewers. For > example, someone might dislike directly getting such notification mails in > their inbox. > > In the past, I actually considered making and running a tool that scans patch > mails that not Cc-ing relevant reviewers based on get_maintainers.pl and > forward those to the missing reviewers. But I didn't make it because I worried > polluting someone's inbox. I should also confess I worried my electricity bill > :) > > As an alternative way, I was wondering what if reviewers consider mm tree as a > kind of compacted and curated version of the mailing list. That is, using the > mm tree as the useful place that we can more easily find patches that we need > to review asap. If it turns out there is no time to review immediately, the > reviewer can always ask Andrew to wait. I have my inbox full with stuff that needs review. As long as I am properly getting CCed, I am well aware. What needs review is at least not my problem. And people can feel free to be listed as Reviewer to get CCed :) The problem I have is that if I am not fast enough to review/ack, things might go upstream. It sucks. Hard. -- Cheers David