Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265511AbTFRTZu (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:25:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265512AbTFRTZu (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:25:50 -0400 Received: from mail.convergence.de ([212.84.236.4]:29914 "EHLO mail.convergence.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265511AbTFRTZe (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:25:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:39:24 +0200 From: Johannes Stezenbach To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Michael Hunold , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Alan Cox , Holger Waechtler Subject: Re: DVB updates, 3rd try Message-ID: <20030618193924.GA10511@convergence.de> References: <3EF051AF.1060006@convergence.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1598 Lines: 38 Hello Linus, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I don't go out to fetch patches, I really want to see them come to me (and > even then preferably through a few people acting as quality control and > maintainership). > > And if there is no clear maintainership relationship and you need to send > them directly to me, I really want plain-text patches (they can be big if > needed), with: It would be great if we could clarfiy DVB maintainership. It would nice to "appoint" one maintainer to whom we should send the patches. If no one else volunteers, we will send them to you directly, if you want with Cc: to lkml. Alan Cox was the first one to merge the DVB subsystem into his 2.5 kernel tree, but hinted that future updates should be sent in your direction. Maybe that was just because he was busy with the IDE drivers, maybe there are other reasons. I don't know. The code base for the DVB drivers has grown over the last 3..4 years, and there was a lot of stuff we wanted to clean up before inclusion in the kernel. The pre-halloween merge was somewhat too soon, and there were considerable cleanups afterwards which resulted in rather large patches. Even after this current patch set, there is already a pile of stuff to be merged. But the drivers in our CVS are already in a stable condition, so future patches might be smaller ;-) Thanks, Johannes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/