Re: [PATCH iwl-next v2 0/4] intel: fix typos in comments

[Randy Dunlap]

On 9/7/26 10:46 PM, Hemanth Selam wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2026 at 10:27:00AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> How did you choose iwl-next as the target tree?
>>
>> The closest match to that in the MAINTAINERS file is this:
>> INTEL WIRELESS WIFI LINK (iwlwifi)
> [...]
>> but the patches don't touch any of the Intel wifi drivers.
>>
>> I expect that you want net-next there, but I could just be confuzed.
> 
> Sorry, the prefix is a confusing one.  Here "iwl" is Intel Wired LAN, not
> iwlwifi.  It is the prefix the Intel ethernet maintainers use for their
> next-queue tree, the one in MAINTAINERS under INTEL ETHERNET DRIVERS:
> 
>   L: intel-wired-lan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (moderated for non-subscribers)
>   T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/next-queue.git
> 
> Intel's own developers tag patches for that tree the same way; recent
> examples on the list are the ice, idpf, ixd and libie series, all
> [PATCH iwl-next].  Since these four patches only touch
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ and its documentation, they go through that
> tree rather than straight to net-next.
> 
> So I think iwl-next is right here, but Tony and Przemek should correct me
> if they would rather have them another way.
> 
> Thanks for looking.

Thanks for the info!

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~Randy