On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 05:44:39PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > One pet peeve I have is that people are pretty bad at indicating the > intended target tree. I often ask for it in private mail but the > practice doesn't seem to stick. I spend a ton of time guessing whether a > patch is a fix for a new feature in the x+1 queue or a fix for the > current release. It is not always obvious.
The Fixes tag doesn't help? Of course, you've never asked me or anyone on kernel-newbies that question. We don't normally know the answer either. I do always try to figure it out for networking, but it's kind of a pain in the butt and I mess up surpisingly often for how much effort I put into getting it right. regards, dan carpenter
