On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 02:41:46PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
This should have 'net' in the subject line, to indicate which tree its for.
No, it shouldn't.
Contributors aren't obliged to know anything about merging strategies.
With netdev, we tend to assume they do, or at least can contribute to the discussion. They often know about any dependencies etc which could influence the decision. When there are multiple subsystem maintainers involved, i tend to use To: to indicate the maintainer i think should merge the patch, and Cc: for the rest.
I'm always a bit confused when I have to send patch to mixed subsystem (not the case but for net trigger it's almost that). Sorry for the confusion/noise.
Why does this need to go in via net?
It does not, as far as i'm aware. Christian, do you know of any reason?
This is strictly a fix, no dependency or anything like that. Maybe using net as target would make this faster to merge (since net is for fix only and this has to be backported) than using leds-next?
Again if needed I can send v2 with the correct tag for net subsystem if better.