From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759991AbZE0Fj6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 01:39:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751891AbZE0Fjv (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 01:39:51 -0400 Received: from 136-022.dsl.LABridge.com ([206.117.136.22]:1936 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750695AbZE0Fjv (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 01:39:51 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/18] MAINTAINERS - Remove L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org from all but "THE REST" From: Joe Perches To: Paul Mundt Cc: Grant Likely , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20090527013303.GB8979@linux-sh.org> References: <9f55522f7ab56afcf16d936d06ab2f3a7e699ed5.1243131992.git.joe@perches.com> <1243135358.3560.1.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> <1243139947.3560.7.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> <20090527013303.GB8979@linux-sh.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 22:38:38 -0700 Message-Id: <1243402718.27337.8.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 10:33 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:51:24PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > > Do subsystem maintainers think so? Unless they do (and tell others > > so), I don't think it will actually happen. Until that point, I don't > > think the L:linux-kernel lines should be removed. > > > Ultimately it should come to common sense. If you are only touching > subsystem or architecture-specific code and it's unlikely anyone on l-k > is going to care, or have much to add to it, then there really isn't a > lot of point in mindlessly Cc-ing the list on every change. And if you already know who or to what list you want to submit a patch to, the MAINTAINERS entry doesn't much matter. > Conversely, if you need to read SubmittingPatches to figure out how to > submit a patch, yes, you are probably better off CCing l-k just to be on > the safe side. As a blanket policy though it makes no sense. Yup. Agree.