You may be a Linux Kernel Maintainer - and Not Know It!

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Adding a name to MAINTAINERS effectively makes that engineer a kernel maintainer overnight, and patches can either bypass them to subsystem maintainers or flow through them for review and signed-off-by attribution. Five practical involvement levels range from ignore the role to becoming a submaintainer who enforces architecture, testing and performance data. Required checks include checkpatch, make W= warnings, sparse/smatch, hardware boot tests and a clear bug pointer for Cc: stable consideration. Time commitment and handoffs to upstream must be negotiated.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:21A Real Life Story
3. 0:47New driver is accepted
4. 1:32What happens next?
5. 2:03A gap in our internal OSS training We had helped our development team learn how to submit a driver to the Linux kernel But we had not prepared them for what involved in being a maintainer of the driver
6. 2:28driver maintainer - patch path?
7. 3:34driver maintainer - possible roles
8. 4:23Ignore role
9. 5:03Advise upstream maintainer
10. 7:25Review patches
11. 10:11Sub-maintainer
12. 11:10Some Maintainer Tasks
13. 14:49Your Role summarized Participate in the tow of a patch from developers to the upstream maintainer
14. 16:03Signed-off-by: - Developer's tag must exist in paich -If the patchows through the driver maintainer tree, with a pull request to the subsystem maintainer, then the driver maintainer adds
15. 18:35Tested-by How should patches be tested?
16. 23:27Time expectations
17. 24:34Bonus Points Monitor or skim your subsystem mais

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