linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2 3/3] libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: Maintainer Entry Profile

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Message-ID: <20190916171550.GJ4352@sirena.co.uk>
Date:   Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:15:50 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2 3/3] libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS:
 Maintainer Entry Profile

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 01:08:45PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:

> Vendor driver submissions, however, are generally huge. Sometimes 50+
> patches per submission window. And during this window I often get on the
> order of 10 to 20 patches for the same driver in the fixes tree. It is
> not always easy to determine whether a bug fix series is for one tree or
> the other.

I get the impression that a lot of vendors just don't distinguish and
only really care about getting things upstream, especially in the
embedded world many of them realistically expect to be shipping a pile
of out of tree patches to anyone using anything other than mainline
anyway so it's not super clear to them that it's worthwhile.  This goes
back to the converstations about stable and how vendors interact with
that.

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