Resend patches because maintainer was not mailed?

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Thu May 22 19:40:28 EDT 2014


On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:43:35PM +0200, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I submitted a set of patches to the driverdevel list for the staging
> drivers, but did not send the patches to Greg K-H, because I was sure
> there were things to fix up. Now the patchset got reviewed and fixed
> up, I submitted the 3rd version to the list. But I did not send the
> patches to Greg K-H himself. Should I re-submit the patches to him
> (and maybe even the kernel ML)?

Always use the scripts/get_maintainer.pl tool to figure out what people
to send the patches to, and what mailing list (you can drop the
linux-kernel list usually, and just stick with the subsystem list, if
the output shows one.)

> Should I put a Reviewed-by tag in the commits? I guess I have to ask
> the guy who reviewed them beforehand, right?

If someone reviewed them, and sent that line in the review, then yes,
please add them and resend after a day or so.

thanks,

greg k-h



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