Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750984AbWCBNCy (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:02:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750944AbWCBNCy (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:02:54 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:14466 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750739AbWCBNCy (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:02:54 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] pcmcia: add another ide-cs CF card id From: Arjan van de Ven To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Russell King , Jens Axboe , Dominik Brodowski , Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <4406E759.2010601@pobox.com> 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> <4406E759.2010601@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:02:22 +0100 Message-Id: <1141304543.3206.60.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: 1516 Lines: 37 On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 07:38 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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 I would turn this around IDE impacting change -> IDE reviewers network driver impacting change -> network reviewers the reason for the review is because of the impact, not because a file happens to live in a certain directory. - 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/