On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 10:59, Dan Carpenter [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 09:28:26AM +0200, Björn Töpel wrote:

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For future patches: Prefix AF_XDP socket work with "xsk:" and use "PATCH
bpf-next" to let the developers know what tree you're aiming for.

There are over 300 trees in linux-next.  It impossible to try remember
everyone's trees.  No one else has this requirement.

Net/bpf are different, and I wanted to point that out to lessen the
burden for the maintainers. It's documented in:

Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst.
Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.rst

Maybe add it as an option to get_maintainer.pl --tree <hash> then that
would be very easy.

Yes, improved tooling would help.


Cheers,
Björn

regards,
dan carpenter