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Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:32:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 22:32:40 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Konstantin Ryabitsev Cc: Greg KH , Theodore Tso , Jonathan Corbet , ksummit@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Coping with the new-developer flood Message-ID: References: <87y0ekm9nw.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> <2026080651-bony-hertz-bfb6@gregkh> <20260806-industrious-whippet-of-jest-a91eaa@meerkat> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260806-industrious-whippet-of-jest-a91eaa@meerkat> On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 01:28:25PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > - actually applies > - isn't against a known LTS branch No one wants patches against an LTS branch. That would violate the stable rules since everything should be upstream first. Most subsystems take patches against -next and backport the Fixes. A couple have a tree for the -rc branch and want patches that apply specifically to that. These are net, bpf and certain Intel networking drivers. These three subsystems want people to put in the subject which tree they are working against like [PATCH net-next]" Everyone else pretty much accepts patches against linux-next. In staging we tell people to work against staging-next but working against linux-next is fine. It's basically the same thing. regards, dan carpenter