Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: Require base tree information

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> writes:

> For many of my contributions base is obvious and not needed to be
> explicitly defined. For all the patches I accept, answer is the same -
> base is either obvious or if not and patch does not apply, then the base
> does not matter.
>
> Requiring it is just bureaucracy without actual benefit.
>
> The only benefit would be if maintainer COULD change its base to apply
> some patch with odd base... but this cannot happen. Maintainer base is
> fixed - it's the HEAD of his development branch for given category of
> commits (e.g. DTS branch for SoC maintainers).

I fairly routinely get docs patches that don't apply to docs-next; when
I'm in the mood, I'll try to figure what they *do* apply to, then
cherry-pick them over.  Base information would make that process easier,
and even automatable.

Thanks,

jon