Re: wiki: tree labels in patches

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:

> On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 10:46 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
>
>> Yes, I do see your FIX tag in patchwork:
>> 
>>  [ 31] [FIX] brcmfmac: fix reporting support for 160 MHz channels   2018-11-08 
>> 
>> But "FIX" is a bit ambigous as not all fixes not go to wireless-drivers,
>> they can also go to wireless-drivers-next. So I prefer using the release
>> number (or name of the tree) like this:
>> 
>> [PATCH 4.20] brcmfmac: fix reporting support for 160 MHz channels
>
> FWIW, davem/networking just use 
>
> [PATCH net]
> [PATCH net-next]
>
> which puts a bit more effort on the submitter but is a bit easier on the
> maintainer I suppose. Also, not really a problem here, but it would help
> disambiguate different trees on the same mailing list. I don't really
> mind either way.

Actually I already added that to the wiki[1] but made it optional just
bacause it's harder for patch submitters who are not so familiar with
our tree structure. But yes, I also like using the full tree name as the
label, even more so as it would help me to automatically assign patches
to correct maintainers in patchwork.

[1] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches#tree_labels

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Kalle Valo