On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 1:02 PM Alexander A. Klimov <grandmas...@al2klimov.de> wrote: > > Who if not Linus shall review one huge patch spreading across lots of > subsystems?
Even if a patch is tree-wide, ideally it is first ack'd/reviewed by each subsystem maintainer. The overall idea is that changes are reviewed by several people. Thus sending patches directly to Linus, Andrew Morton, Greg K-H, etc. without previous discussion is a last resort. Cheers, Miguel