From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: daniel watson <ozzloy@challenge-bot.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: how do you find the subsystem of a file?
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 08:37:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YS8fj49IvUdUm7dn@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210821073027.GD18204@challenge-bot.com>
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 12:30:27AM -0700, daniel watson wrote:
> i wrote a patch that got rejected because it did not apply cleanly to
> the tree of greg kh
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/8/18/304
>
> the file i modified is
> drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtl8192c_recv.h
>
> get_maintainer.pl gave me the list of emails to send the patch to,
> and i used it for that purpose. the file
> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst says to see the T: entry
> for the subsystem in MAINTAINERS to find the right tree to base the
> patch on. i tried searching through MAINTAINERS and found that there
> are a few subsystems that start with RTL8*.
>
> greg kh is listed a few times in MAINTAINERS, so i'm not able to find
> the exact tree to start with by looking for the maintainer.
>
> is there a systematic way of finding the subsystem, given a file?
Yes, use the tool you already used:
$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtl8192c_recv.h
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> (supporter:STAGING SUBSYSTEM)
linux-staging@lists.linux.dev (open list:STAGING SUBSYSTEM)
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
That shows this file is in the staging subsystem, and there's the list
to send the patch to, as well as the person you should cc: on it.
> in addition, how do i know what branch to use? the T: entries have a
> repo, but not a branch name.
You can always ask the subsystem maintainer about what branch to use if
you have a question.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-21 7:30 how do you find the subsystem of a file? daniel watson
2021-08-21 23:19 ` daniel watson
2021-08-22 0:23 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2021-09-01 6:37 ` Greg KH [this message]
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