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What's missing from our changelogs

What's missing from our changelogs

Posted Jul 24, 2013 21:08 UTC (Wed) by johill (subscriber, #25196)
Parent article: What's missing from our changelogs

FWIW, I also maintain the iwlwifi tree(s) along with mac80211, which have a similar situation and that probably explains the relatively large number of commits. Not that I've tried to figure out how many come from where.

Most of the time I (used to) post iwlwifi patches to the list for review along with the pull request, but there's no telling who looks at them. If anyone sends an explicit review/ack tag, I will add that (by way of rebasing my submission tree) unless it comes in after my tree was merged, but it's very rare in any case. I've stopped sending the patches for a while but should probably get back to it, I admit that I've been somewhat sloppy here.

Also, for iwlwifi, we have an internal process that typically has at least two people to looking at a patch (usually myself and Emmanuel) but this is only reflected in Reviewed-by tags since there's no "handling" of the patch outside of my tree.

For mac80211 (and cfg80211) this process would not really make sense. I think right now we're also lacking anyone committed to following mac80211/cfg80211 changes and wanting to familiarize themselves with the details; this is also dangerous in other ways, the bus factor is pretty small here. I suspect the same is, unfortunately, true in other subsystems as well.


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