Reading a Real Kernel Review Thread Before You Post
Kernel development happens in public on mailing lists, and every patch ever sent is archived and searchable, together with the replies it got. Reading one full thread for a driver like yours — the first version, the objections, the rewrite, the eventual acceptance — teaches you what reviewers actually ask about and in what tone, which is nothing like what people imagine. After it you can predict most of the comments your own submission will get and fix them in advance, which is the cheapest review round you will ever have.
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- Why does reading one thread end to end teach more than reading the merged driver alone?
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Kernel development happens in public on mailing lists, and every patch ever sent is archived and searchable, together with the replies it got. Reading one full thread for a driver like yours — the first version, the objections, the rewrite, the eventual acceptance — teaches you what reviewers actually ask about and in what tone, which is nothing like what people imagine. After it you can predict most of the comments your own submission will get and fix them in advance, which is the cheapest review round you will ever have.
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