From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751526AbdFHSJJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2017 14:09:09 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:33624 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751393AbdFHSJI (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2017 14:09:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:09:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20170608.140904.2160287009636313040.davem@davemloft.net> To: mcgrof@kernel.org Cc: kvalo@codeaurora.org, postmaster@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, wagi@monom.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com, rjw@rjwysocki.net, yi1.li@linux.intel.com, atull@kernel.org, moritz.fischer@ettus.com, pmladek@suse.com, johannes.berg@intel.com, emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com, luciano.coelho@intel.com, luto@kernel.org, keescook@chromium.org, takahiro.akashi@linaro.org, dhowells@redhat.com, pjones@redhat.com, hdegoede@redhat.com, alan@linux.intel.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, teg@jklm.no Subject: Re: New vger mailing list request - linux-firmware From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20170608161942.GP27288@wotan.suse.de> References: <87poee4rwt.fsf@codeaurora.org> <20170608161942.GP27288@wotan.suse.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 24.5 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 18:19:42 +0200 > On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 02:53:22PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: >> "Luis R. Rodriguez" writes: >> >> > Dear vger postmaster, >> > >> > I think its time for a linux-firmware mailing list. If one is possible >> > on vger that'd be great, otherwise let me know and I can look for an >> > alternative outlet. >> > >> > I've been giving linux-firmware some good love as of late. One of the >> > issues I have seen with old commits had been lack of eyeball reviews, >> > and and also ensuring the "right people" do review and get CC'd. While >> > I do tend to CC everyone and their mom, its easy for me to know who >> > should be as I'm maintaining the code now -- but I see some folks fail >> > to capture everyone I know should be reviewing things or might like to >> > get Cc'd on such topics. Tools like checkpatch help but its not >> > perfect and now everyone use it. Instead of CC'ing everyone I know >> > should be Cc'd on linux-firmware stuff I think its time for a proper >> > mailing list for it. >> > >> > This should also help with reviewing old patches and letting new folks >> > engage more easily by looking at specific dedicate archive of what's >> > going on. >> >> There's already linux-firmware@kernel.org (an alias I think, not sure) > > Ah, yes thanks. > >> for submitting patches to linux-firmware.git. I think it will be >> confusing if we will have two separate linux-firmware destinations under >> kernel.org domain: >> >> linux-firmware@kernel.org >> linux-firmware@vger.kernel.org >> >> Maybe rename the new list to linux-fw-dev@vger.kernel.org or something >> like that to make it more obvious which one is which? > > Yeah good call. That's fine by me, but I'll leave it to postmaster to > also decide. One list is enough, I think.