On 9/7/26 10:46 PM, Hemanth Selam wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2026 at 10:27:00AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> How did you choose iwl-next as the target tree?
>>
>> The closest match to that in the MAINTAINERS file is this:
>> INTEL WIRELESS WIFI LINK (iwlwifi)
> [...]
>> but the patches don't touch any of the Intel wifi drivers.
>>
>> I expect that you want net-next there, but I could just be confuzed.
>
> Sorry, the prefix is a confusing one. Here "iwl" is Intel Wired LAN, not
> iwlwifi. It is the prefix the Intel ethernet maintainers use for their
> next-queue tree, the one in MAINTAINERS under INTEL ETHERNET DRIVERS:
>
> L: [email protected] (moderated for non-subscribers)
> T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/next-queue.git
>
> Intel's own developers tag patches for that tree the same way; recent
> examples on the list are the ice, idpf, ixd and libie series, all
> [PATCH iwl-next]. Since these four patches only touch
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ and its documentation, they go through that
> tree rather than straight to net-next.
>
> So I think iwl-next is right here, but Tony and Przemek should correct me
> if they would rather have them another way.
>
> Thanks for looking.
Thanks for the info!
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~Randy
