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Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:32:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spider.bream-herring.ts.net ([103.6.151.236]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d9443c01a7336-2df6a5a5157sm19729735ad.14.2026.09.23.20.32.02 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:32:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthias Goergens To: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Jan Kara , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: name the ext4 dev branch Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:32:00 +0800 Message-ID: <20260924033200.3615554-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.55.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20260923101749.3505886-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 11:14:31PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I also tried looking at the documentation, and I can't find any > mention that the git branch could be specified. Maybe we should > update the documentation for T: in a separate patch to the MAINTAINERS > file? The header only says "SCM tree type and location", but the branch has been used since hwmon named two in 2007, 109 of the 846 git T: lines name one today, and get_maintainer.pl --self-test=scm has parsed it and checked it with git ls-remote since 083bf9c56d06 (2017). > I wonder if ext4 is the only tree which might have this issue... > > git log --merges linux-next > > ... nope, apparently not. I see a lot of branches which are merged > into linux-net which are not mentioned in the MAINTAINERS file. I'll take both on: patches documenting the branch, in the MAINTAINERS header and where submitting-patches.rst sends contributors to the T: entry, and patches bringing the T: entries in line with the branches linux-next merges. I'll Cc you on the documentation patches. For the entries, my plan is to start with the roughly 160 T: lines that name a repository whose HEAD is already in mainline while linux-next pulls a different branch from it: one small patch per repository, sent to that entry's maintainers as its own thread. I'd send a few first, to maintainers who usually respond quickly, and then the rest in larger batches once the first ones have landed or drawn comments. You know far better than I do how maintainers take this kind of tree-wide cleanup, so I'd welcome your view on that approach before I start. Thanks, Matthias