From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65258EB64DA for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:31:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232071AbjGTSbT (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:31:19 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:36412 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232072AbjGTSbT (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:31:19 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [139.178.84.217]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 75CD11734; Thu, 20 Jul 2023 11:31:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0ACA061BDC; Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:31:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 853CBC433C9; Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:31:14 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1689877877; bh=CtNFdU3F9NU71cT8OwvsL628imoZj0J7FgObAG63Kxs=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=f3oMGjflOKxpKcCuRTekPugXGhdCEoJECkCTCtljh9qkBNODb2gjp/RH8CrfeBET3 V08CAQ5L9vSmqBuNoa0cwYWxopmZ5ohkahFf2x+u1lf2LjjL/ThDQE8eEP3imj/n2s XjvY50a4o8mJpBIu9YI+Goan+/t1AadoS2R9nhmLxM49gjZHc4ddLrAIE8c2QHhhoF imn4wueHAcTdZV+KnNNPpD/A06brA5ZstZxqjtZwxb9vjbKeCc1lWlbZtdCZCo5Pj4 s7zXHStdAlWnD9z0EraLhldfQRFvipqq5zuitrNJjgvpfxeDN/aDZOtNQxzUuEJqW2 4gxfgLSwZs5PA== Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 19:31:11 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Edward Cree Cc: Jakub Kicinski , corbet@lwn.net, Andrew Lunn , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Leon Romanovsky , workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux@leemhuis.info, kvalo@kernel.org, benjamin.poirier@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH docs v3] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers Message-ID: <1d136db7-4c39-4b56-86fc-3840b1395b4d@sirena.org.uk> References: <20230719183225.1827100-1-kuba@kernel.org> <50164116-9d12-698d-f552-96b52c718749@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jb9kzeyvt9pPL7IP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50164116-9d12-698d-f552-96b52c718749@gmail.com> X-Cookie: Ginger snap. Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org --jb9kzeyvt9pPL7IP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 07:23:56PM +0100, Edward Cree wrote: > On 19/07/2023 19:32, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > +Maintainers must review *all* patches touching exclusively their drivers, > > +no matter how trivial. If the patch is a tree wide change and modifies > > +multiple drivers - whether to provide a review is left to the maintainer. > Does this apply even to "checkpatch cleanup patch spam", where other patches > sprayed from the same source (perhaps against other drivers) have already > been nacked as worthless churn? I've generally been assuming I can ignore > those, do I need to make sure to explicitly respond with typically a repeat > of what's already been said elsewhere? Yeah, it's this sort of stuff that makes me concerned about the "must" wording. I'd say it's obviously reasonable to ignore such things. --jb9kzeyvt9pPL7IP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCgAdFiEEreZoqmdXGLWf4p/qJNaLcl1Uh9AFAmS5fW4ACgkQJNaLcl1U h9AIHQf/Q9pz80IaSHLonaCmKZBC/PhYzARUEaUDHduoe5xLcbBScTYkq8I6Z7Xp MMEdiuI9ueOcSGGJNwSxrsjJMPvYQ59ji4fsJ7hEQULZZ+44f5XBR46jRd0rYX3z b3fNyivasjTQEo/yNinlzMDQBA5Bzgquft3GCSd7sOn+Ba76YWofKBrAWJ9XfHqs Hc9JY98Eh/sa03U8rTMF8BuDKpz+XNexp6r5WY9SbVwtHlNOM/vwvb3Lf3EK5TYA Xau0KMJYF+Z+kIn7vElXvGwxLPa1rbxZfj8yuvEnwxX76U0in2XSXmJ2b8Nyd2I4 wF7oOllE5TwlbmHTw0i5uBWk33Npdw== =XcvA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jb9kzeyvt9pPL7IP--