From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Jarod Wilson <jarod@wilsonet.com>,
Jakub Schmidtke <sjakub@gmail.com>,
Henk de Groot <pe1dnn@amsat.org>,
Naren Sankar <nsankar@broadcom.com>,
Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>,
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Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>,
Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@siliconmotion.com.cn>,
Ossama Othman <ossama.othman@intel.com>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>, Willy Tarreau <willy@meta-x.org>,
Scott Davilla <davilla@4pi.com>, Scott Smedley <ss@aao.gov.au>,
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Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net>,
David Rowe <david@rowetel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] MAINTAINERS: Add drivers/staging entries
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 17:07:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100609000713.GB16160@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1276032382.24044.23.camel@Joe-Laptop.home>
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 02:26:22PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 14:12 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 11:49:34AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > Some drivers/staging directories use a TODO file with email entries.
> > > Make the same entries in the normal MAINTAINERS file.
> >
> > No, please don't do this. I don't want to clutter up the MAINTAINERS
> > file with staging stuff.
>
> It's not clutter when it helps get patches to the right reviewers
> or responsible parties.
That's my job as staging maintainer, right? Am I somehow not doing this
properly?
> > The get_maintainer.pl script handles staging
> > patches just fine today without this being needed at all.
>
> Dubious.
>
> Many of these nominal maintainer email entries are not
> found in git logs.
Many, but not all, as you pointed out.
> > I also found it a bit odd you didn't send these to the stable subsystem
> > maintainer, why?
>
> The MAINTAINERS patches are forward going, not historical.
What does that mean?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-09 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 01/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - ASUS OLED Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 02/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - B.A.T.M.A.N Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 03/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - COMEDI Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 04/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - CRYSTAL HD VIDEO DECODER Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 05/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - DT3155 DIGITIZER Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 06/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - ECHO CANCELLER Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 07/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - FRONTIER TRANZPORT AND ALPHATRACK Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 08/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - HYPER-V (MICROSOFT) Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 09/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - INDUSTRIAL IO Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:52 ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-06-07 19:21 ` Charles Clément
2010-06-07 19:54 ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-06-07 19:42 ` [PATCH V2 " Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 10/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - MEMORY RESTRICTED ACCESS REGIONS Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 11/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - OTUS 802.11n USB WIRELESS DRIVER Joe Perches
2010-06-07 19:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-06-07 19:11 ` [PATCH] drivers/staging/otus/TODO: Don't bother, for documentation purposes only Joe Perches
2010-06-07 20:12 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 12/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - PARALLEL LCD/KEYPAD PANEL DRIVER Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:57 ` Willy Tarreau
2010-06-07 19:14 ` [PATCH V2 " Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 13/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - SILICON MOTION SM7XX FRAME BUFFER DRIVER Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 14/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - VIA VT665X DRIVERS Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 15/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - WINBOND IS89C35 WLAN USB DRIVER Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 16/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - AGERE HERMES II and II.5 WIRELESS DRIVERS Joe Perches
2010-06-07 18:49 ` [PATCH 17/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - XGI Z7,Z9,Z11 PCI DISPLAY DRIVER Joe Perches
2010-06-07 21:14 ` [PATCH V2 03/17] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - COMEDI Joe Perches
2010-06-08 21:12 ` [PATCH 00/17] MAINTAINERS: Add drivers/staging entries Greg KH
2010-06-08 21:26 ` Joe Perches
2010-06-09 0:07 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-06-09 0:20 ` Joe Perches
2010-06-09 13:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-09 15:08 ` Greg KH
2010-06-09 15:52 ` Joe Perches
2010-06-09 16:01 ` Greg KH
2010-06-09 16:24 ` Joe Perches
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