linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] docs: process: Send patches 'To' maintainers and 'Cc' lists

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Date:   Sun, 4 Jun 2023 11:33:49 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     James Seo <james@...iv.tech>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
        workflows@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] docs: process: Send patches 'To' maintainers and 'Cc'
 lists

On Sat,  3 Jun 2023 08:14:47 -0700 James Seo wrote:
> +You should always notify the appropriate subsystem maintainer(s) and list(s)

s/notify/specify as recipients/ ?
notify sounds like an out of band ping, maybe just to me.

> +about any patch to code that they maintain.  Identify them by looking through
> +the MAINTAINERS file and the source code revision history, and by using the
> +script scripts/get_maintainer.pl (pass paths to your patches as arguments to
> +scripts/get_maintainer.pl).  Send your patch e-mail "To:" those maintainers and
> +"Cc:" those lists.

There's a handful of people who run get_maintainer on the file paths,

 ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl net/core/dev.c
rather than
 ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl 0001-my.patch

This leads to ignoring Fixes tags, and authors of fixed commits should
really be CCed.

Since we're touching this paragraph maybe we can massage the wording 
a bit:

(pass paths to your patches generated by git format-patch as arguments
to scripts/get_maintainer.pl)

> +If you cannot find a maintainer for the subsystem you are working on, Andrew
> +Morton (akpm@...ux-foundation.org) serves as a maintainer of last resort.  Also,

Thanks for the patch, btw, we also see To-less patches a couple times 
a month on netdev@ :(