Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750873AbWCBL4t (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 06:56:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751093AbWCBL4s (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 06:56:48 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:10469 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750873AbWCBL4s (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 06:56:48 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] pcmcia: add another ide-cs CF card id From: Arjan van de Ven To: Jens Axboe Cc: Jeff Garzik , Dominik Brodowski , Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <20060302114220.GH4329@suse.de> References: <200603012259.k21MxBXC013582@hera.kernel.org> <44062FF1.4010108@pobox.com> <20060302075004.GA17789@isilmar.linta.de> <4406D44A.4020101@pobox.com> <1141299117.3206.37.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060302114220.GH4329@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:56:42 +0100 Message-Id: <1141300602.3206.44.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1768 Lines: 39 On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 12:42 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 06:17 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 06:36:17PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > >>Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > > >>>commit 42935656914b813c99f91cbac421fe677a6f34ab > > > >>>tree d37a0d20998f4d87a4bd014300f707c3852ef5f9 > > > >>>parent 82d56e6d2e616bee0e712330bad06b634f007a46 > > > >>>author David Brownell Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:36:32 -0800 > > > >>>committer Dominik Brodowski Wed, 01 Mar 2006 > > > > > > >>Why was this not CC'd to the IDE maintainer, and linux-ide? > > > > > > > For it is trivial, PCMCIA-related and my time is very limited these days. > > > > > > That's pathetic. You couldn't even CC linux-kernel on your answer. And > > > this is not even the first or second time you've been asked to CC a > > > maintainer. > > > > I personally don't consider that maintainers have a right to demand > > CC's. Sure it's polite and good to CC them, but that's not the same as > > having the right to demand this. > > How do you expect the patch to be picked up, if you don't cc the > maintainer? in this case brodo IS the ide-cs maintainer arguably ;) but if you do a kernel wide change (say add a parameter to a function) being forced to look up 5000 different maintainers is nonsense. sure sending it to lkml and some bigger lists is good for that, but still. - 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/