On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 01:59:33PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 02:31:32PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 04:42:46PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> > > The tag's useful for push back on review,
> >
> > That's the point I raised during the maintainer summit. It's actually
> > the *absence* of a tag that helps me push back on review. It allows me
> > to ask submitters if they forgot to add the tag, and in many cases (so
> > far) they simply don't reply.
> 
> While the tag's useful for pushback, pushing back is the issue.
> 
> The asymmetry between submitter volume/reviewer bandwidth is the MOST
> CRITICAL issue we face.
> 
> If reviewers are required to reply to all of these people, the project's
> dead, AFAIC.
> 
> Ignoring is the only workable long-term solution.

How do you decide which patches to ignore ?

> The issue we had before was a lack of a CLEAR and LOUD 'yes ignore these
> people' from Linus.
> 
> We now have that :)

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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