Re: [PATCH V8 04/14] rust: Add cpumask helpers

Andreas Hindborg
2025-02-15T10:17:00Z

"Viresh Kumar" <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> writes:

> On 11-02-25, 11:24, Yury Norov wrote:
>> To begin with, this is the 8th version of the same patch, but you
>> only now bothered to CC someone who is listed in MAINTAINERS. This is
>> not how the community works.
>
> Yes, this was my mistake. I assumed get_maintainers would Cc all
> relevant people, but I overlooked the fact that these are new files,
> so it didn’t include the maintainers. Unfortunately, the same issue
> occurred with the clk bindings. Miguel pointed it out at V7, and I
> corrected it immediately. There was no intention to bypass anyone.

I have to admit, I have done this as well, for the module_params series.
It feels horrible to commit this action, because it looks either
disrespectful or like an attempt to bypass people to sneak in stuff. But
as clarified this is _never_ the intention. It's simply people working
with a contribution model that they are still learning how to use. The
kernel tooling and process is not exactly intuitive to most people.

Just know that absolutely the largest fraction of contributors (I would
guess all) want to do things the right way. For all contributions, rust
or c, the patches benefit tremendously from reviews from domain experts.
The contributors appreciate this and hope for this to happen.

Best regards,
Andreas Hindborg