From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/18] MAINTAINERS: Remove unnecessary linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org entries
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 11:57:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110301115723.GB9662@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1298980419.4367.18.camel@Joe-Laptop>
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 03:53:39AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:20 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > I've run into a noticeable number of issues with users not parsing this
> > convention as expected and sending only direct to maintainer mail for
> > things that have no list. For the amount of space it saves in the file
> > I'm not sure it's worth removing such entries.
> Yes that's certainly possible, but it's a trade-off given the
> number of people that would not otherwise CC lkml after seeing
> some MAINTAINERS entries with
> L: linux-kernel@vger...
> and some entries without.
Yeah, I'd be in favour of adding back all the other ones that were
removed when the decision to keep the lkml references out of the file
was taken.
> It might also be worthwhile to to update
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches.
It's not actually patches which have been the biggest problem here - a
lot of it has been people with questions about the code or in the
pre-submission stage.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-01 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-23 5:41 [PATCH 00/18] MAINTAINERS: Trivial corrections Joe Perches
2011-02-23 5:41 ` [PATCH 01/18] MAINTAINERS: Update ADP5520 pattern Joe Perches
2011-02-23 8:54 ` Hennerich, Michael
2011-02-23 5:41 ` [PATCH 02/18] MAINTAINERS: Change web links from wiki-analog to wiki.analog Joe Perches
2011-02-23 6:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-02-23 5:41 ` [PATCH 03/18] MAINTAINERS: Remove ASOC CODEC DRIVERS files not in tree Joe Perches
2011-02-23 5:41 ` [PATCH 04/18] MAINTAINERS: Add missing : after HR Timers F tag Joe Perches
2011-02-23 9:44 ` Harry Wei
2011-02-23 5:41 ` [PATCH 05/18] MAINTAINERS: Remove unnecessary linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org entries Joe Perches
2011-02-23 9:43 ` Harry Wei
2011-03-01 11:20 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-01 11:53 ` Joe Perches
2011-03-01 11:57 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2011-03-01 12:24 ` Joe Perches
2011-03-01 12:26 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-01 14:10 ` Harry Wei
2011-03-01 14:13 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <AANLkTin2++GT3eRcTQeeqcB_1whedAt_0Hn+YY8y=v1s@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-01 14:47 ` Fwd: " Harry Wei
2011-03-08 19:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 2:07 ` Harry Wei
2011-02-23 5:41 ` [PATCH 06/18] MAINTAINERS: Update clkdev location Joe Perches
2011-02-23 6:23 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-02-23 5:42 ` [PATCH 07/18] MAINTAINERS: Update media path Joe Perches
2011-02-23 9:46 ` Harry Wei
2011-02-23 5:42 ` [PATCH 08/18] MAINTAINERS: Update HVC file patterns Joe Perches
2011-02-23 5:42 ` [PATCH 09/18] MAINTAINERS: Quote non-alphanumeric email addresses Joe Perches
2011-02-23 9:48 ` Harry Wei
2011-02-23 5:42 ` [PATCH 10/18] MAINTAINERS: Remove unused clockevents.h Joe Perches
2011-02-23 5:42 ` [PATCH 11/18] MAINTAINERS: Remove IEEE1394 entry Joe Perches
2011-02-23 7:57 ` Stefan Richter
2011-02-23 5:42 ` [PATCH 12/18] MAINTAINERS: Remove unused TIMEKEEPING timekeeping.h Joe Perches
2011-02-23 5:42 ` [PATCH 13/18] MAINTAINERS: Update SCX200 file pattern Joe Perches
2011-02-23 5:42 ` [PATCH 14/18] MAINTAINERS: Remove SHARP LH7A40X section Joe Perches
2011-02-23 5:42 ` [PATCH 15/18] MAINTAINERS: Update SFI pattern Joe Perches
2011-02-23 5:42 ` [PATCH 16/18] MAINTAINERS: Update TIPC patterns Joe Perches
2011-02-23 5:42 ` [PATCH 17/18] MAINTAINERS: USB SE401 moved to staging, update pattern Joe Perches
2011-02-23 10:45 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-02-23 5:42 ` [PATCH 18/18] MAINTAINERS: Update WINBOND CIR pattern Joe Perches
2011-02-23 10:45 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-02-23 15:39 ` David Härdeman
2011-02-23 9:40 ` [PATCH 00/18] MAINTAINERS: Trivial corrections Harry Wei
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