Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) In fact, even if you don't send me pull requests, that's
generally what I assume, because the bulk of patches should be going
through some submaintainer that _does_ send me pull requests (or, like
Andrew, is known to send patches).
Andrew, is known to send patches).
I'd expect that many other people face the same issue - particularly when a patch doesn't have a very clear area, and there are multiple people on the participants list, it's easy to assume that the intended target is "somebody else". Maybe I get too much email, but I bet _that_ is very true of others too.
true of others too.
The obvious place to encourage people to do it is in the [PATCH] part in the subject, ie something like [PATCH/mm] or similar if you expect it to go through Andrew's mm tree, or [PATCH/x86] it you expect the x86 maintainers to pick it up.
Andrew, is known to send patches).
I'd expect that many other people face the same issue - particularly when a patch doesn't have a very clear area, and there are multiple people on the participants list, it's easy to assume that the intended target is "somebody else". Maybe I get too much email, but I bet _that_ is very true of others too.
true of others too.
The obvious place to encourage people to do it is in the [PATCH] part in the subject, ie something like [PATCH/mm] or similar if you expect it to go through Andrew's mm tree, or [PATCH/x86] it you expect the x86 maintainers to pick it up.