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From: Gen Zhang <blackgod016574@gmail.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [A General Question] What should I do after getting Reviewed-by from a maintainer?
Date: Sat, 25 May 2019 10:12:41 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190525021241.GA11472@zhanggen-UX430UQ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7510e8a7-3567-fc22-d8e3-6d6142c06ff3@infradead.org>

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 04:21:36PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 5/22/19 6:17 PM, Gen Zhang wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> > I am starting submitting patches these days and got some patches 
> > "Reviewed-by" from maintainers. After checking the 
> > submitting-patches.html, I figured out what "Reviewed-by" means. But I
> > didn't get the guidance on what to do after getting "Reviewed-by".
> > Am I supposed to send this patch to more maintainers? Or something else?
> > Thanks
> > Gen
> > 
> 
> [Yes, I am not Andrew. ;]
> 
> Patches should be sent to a maintainer who is responsible for merging
> changes for the driver or $arch or subsystem.
> And they should also be Cc-ed to the appropriate mailing list(s) and
> source code author(s), usually [unless they are no longer active].
> 
> Some source files have author email addresses in them.
> Or in a kernel git tree, you can use "git log path/to/source/file.c" to see
> who has been making & merging patches to that file.c.
> Probably the easiest thing to do is run ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl and
> it will try to tell you who to send the patch to.
> 
> HTH.
> -- 
> ~Randy
Thanks for your patient instructions, Randy! I alrady figured it out.

Thanks
Gen

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-25  2:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-23  1:17 Gen Zhang
2019-05-24 23:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-05-25  2:12   ` Gen Zhang [this message]
2019-05-25  5:06     ` Willy Tarreau
2019-05-26  2:22       ` Gen Zhang

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