Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932253AbWCBMjF (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 07:39:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932259AbWCBMjF (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 07:39:05 -0500 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:54967 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932253AbWCBMjE (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 07:39:04 -0500 Message-ID: <4406E759.2010601@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 07:38:49 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell King CC: Arjan van de Ven , Jens Axboe , Dominik Brodowski , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] pcmcia: add another ide-cs CF card id 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> <1141301225.3206.50.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4406E1C7.7020908@pobox.com> <20060302122409.GD14017@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060302122409.GD14017@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1442 Lines: 35 Russell King wrote: > I think it's fairly safe and obvious to say that Dominik is the peer > review for these tables - he _is_ the PCMCIA maintainer, he _is_ > arguably the maintainer for the ide-cs driver, he _is_ the person > who invented these tables, he _is_ the one taking patches from people > to add IDs, he _is_ the one reviewing such patches. > > If you want to know what's going on in PCMCIA land, subscribe to > linux-pcmcia. In the same way that if you want to know what's going > in in IDE land, you subscribe to linux-ide, or PCI land linux-pci, > SCSI land linux-scsi, network land netdev. > > Using your argument (which seems to be demanding that any patch to > any IDE driver no matter how trivial must be on linux-ide) that a patch > to a PCI network device driver must be copied to linux-pci and netdev > even though it may not touch the PCI specific code. IDE driver -> IDE reviewers network driver -> network reviewers The bus associated with the driver is only a tiny detail. Many drivers (IDE!) are multi-bus, even. Linus occasionally complains about stuff hiding on non-LKML lists... Even a CC to LKML would have been sufficient here. That was not done. Jeff - 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/