On 1/8/26 07:26, SeongJae Park wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 21:52:25 +0000 Pedro Falcato <[email protected]> wrote:
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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.
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Cheers
David
