Advice about the linux kernel development process

[Oscar Carter]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:07:40AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 04:39:15PM +0200, Oscar Carter wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been working in the KSPP task number 20: "Enable -Wcast-function-type
> > globally" [1] but now I have some questions about the development process.
> >
> > I sent a v3 patch for the firewire subsystem [2] and a v5 patch series for
> > the acpi/irqchip subsystems [3]. During the process I've received comments
> > and suggestions about my work but now these two threads have no responses
> > in three weeks.
> >
> > When I've send patches to the staging area if they have no responses, in a
> > few days I received a mail from Greg to tell me that the specific patch had
> > been applied to one of the branches of his git tree.
> >
> > Now, what it's the correct workflow out of the staging area? Are these
> > patches in a process of been applied or have they been forgotten? Do I need
> > to insist? And how?
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/20
> > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/20200530090839.7895-1-oscar.carter@gmx.com/
> > [3] https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/20200530143430.5203-1-oscar.carter@gmx.com/
>
> Each subsystem works in different ways, but almost always, after 3
> weeks, you can send a nice response to your patches of "hey, any
> comments on this?" if you haven't heard anything.
>
> Note that during the 2 week merge window, developers can not take new
> patches, so that sometimes does cause extra delays.
>
> good luck!
>
> greg k-h

Thanks for all this information and advices. It helps me a lot.

Thanks,
Oscar Carter