On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 07:23:56PM +0100, Edward Cree wrote:

On 19/07/2023 19:32, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

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+Maintainers must review *all* patches touching exclusively their drivers,
+no matter how trivial. If the patch is a tree wide change and modifies
+multiple drivers - whether to provide a review is left to the maintainer.

Does this apply even to "checkpatch cleanup patch spam", where other patches
 sprayed from the same source (perhaps against other drivers) have already
 been nacked as worthless churn?  I've generally been assuming I can ignore
 those, do I need to make sure to explicitly respond with typically a repeat
 of what's already been said elsewhere?

Yeah, it's this sort of stuff that makes me concerned about the "must"
wording.  I'd say it's obviously reasonable to ignore such things.