From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937582AbXG0RuA (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:50:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932876AbXG0Rtx (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:49:53 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:25354 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933074AbXG0Rtw (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:49:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:53:43 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Andrew Morton Cc: lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: use relevant mailing lists Message-Id: <20070727105343.6486c74a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20070726173140.a76ff4a6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070726170857.dbb42674.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070726173140.a76ff4a6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.2 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:31:40 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:08:57 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > + Use the relevant mailing list(s) -- don't just send everything to > > + lkml (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org). > > True. > > I personally only troll lkml for unloved patches, so I suspect that a > random patch which is sent to mailing-list-A and not to lkml has a higher > probability of getting lost than one which is sent to both lists. Plus > it'd be nice to get lkml's patch-to-noise ratio above one percent. Yes (to P-N ratio). I'd really like to see netdev patches going to netdev (only :) and SCSI patches to linux-scsi (only), e.g., unless they actually address some linux-arch like issue(s). However, those maintainers are quite different regarding patch handling. Maybe you could try to address some of that at that Cambridge/September event. > So I'd suggest that you rework the text here to make it clearer that > patches should go to lkml _and_ to the subsystem-specific mailing list. Patch is withdrawn. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***