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Thu, 01 Oct 2026 04:25:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spider.bream-herring.ts.net ([103.6.151.236]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d9443c01a7336-2e300a90dd5sm9311015ad.22.2026.10.01.04.25.42 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 01 Oct 2026 04:25:43 -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, 1 Oct 2026 19:25:40 +0800 Message-ID: <20261001112540.3822983-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.56.0 In-Reply-To: <20260924033200.3615554-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com> References: <20260923101749.3505886-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com> <20260924033200.3615554-1-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 Hi Ted, A short report on how the T: cleanup went, as promised. The documentation patch is at v2 [1]. It now only describes the syntax: a git T: entry may name a branch, or an entry may have several T: lines, and what each branch is for is left to the subsystem's P: profile or the maintainer. Niklas Cassel, Krzysztof Kozlowski and Eric Biggers reviewed it and Marc Zyngier acked it; no word from Jon yet. I sent one patch each to 18 repositories, a few a day. Three were picked up (libata, clk, mfd), three have acks or reviews (ext4, phy, fbdev), six had no reply, and the rest I withdrew or am withdrawing. Most objections came down to two points. One branch cannot describe a tree with both a fixes and a next branch (Greg Kroah-Hartman, Guenter Roeck). And several maintainers want contributors to start from mainline, not from their next branch (Fan Wu, Marc Zyngier); Petr Mladek and Miroslav Benes added that T: names a repository, and that review tools should get their own pointer if they need one. The trigger was Sashiko, the AI review bot, reviewing against a repository's default branch even when mainline had long since merged it. That is now fixed in Sashiko itself: since 28 September it skips such a branch and uses linux-next. So I am not sending the 46 further patches I had prepared. For ext4 the patch is still correct, but no tool needs it any more, so take it only if you want it there for people; dropping it is fine. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260925120047.1093617-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com/ Thanks, Matthias