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 <[email protected]> (supporter:STAGING SUBSYSTEM) [email protected] (open list:STAGING SUBSYSTEM) [email protected] (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 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
