From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751962AbYEAKGS (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 06:06:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751413AbYEAKGH (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 06:06:07 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:37599 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750827AbYEAKGD (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 06:06:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), linux-embedded@vger list From: David Woodhouse To: Bart Van Assche Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Paul Gortmaker , linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tim Bird In-Reply-To: References: <1209577322.25560.402.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1209577483.25560.405.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 11:05:59 +0100 Message-Id: <1209636359.25560.512.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 (2.22.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 11:55 +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote: > It's great that more attention is being paid to the use of Linux in > embedded systems. And the MAINTAINERS file is probably the right file > to add the above information. But I'm afraid that the way the above > information is formatted will cause confusion. As an example, recently > there was a driver added to the Linux kernel for the PCF8575 chip. > This is an I2C chip that is only used in embedded systems. Regarding > driver review, should any such drivers be sent to the I2C mailing > list, the embedded mailing list or both ? The MAINTAINERS file should > be clear on this. The I²C list would be the best place to send such a patch. You could also copy it to the linux-embedded list if it's likely to be of interest to a reasonable proportion of "embedded" developers, but that wouldn't be the primary route into Linus' tree for most things. I can't really see any way to make that clear in the MAINTAINERS file that wouldn't be clumsy and just as confusing -- I think it'll work out just fine by itself. Do you have a concrete proposal? -- dwmw2