Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 13:19:38 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, devel <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add staging/b.a.t.m.a.n
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On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 13:17:17 -0700 Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:08:39PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 11:53 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > The TODO file in this directory clearly states who to copy on patches to
> > > these files.
> > 
> > Does anyone look at those? ;)
> 
> Yes, they should.
> 
> Heck, get_maintainer.pl would have given you the correct people to cc:
> as well, why not use that?
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS |    8 ++++++++
> >  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 2652ebc..e25e15a 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -5436,6 +5436,14 @@ L:	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
> >  S:	Maintained
> >  F:	drivers/staging/
> >  
> > +STAGING B.A.T.M.A.N.
> > +M:	Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
> > +M:	Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
> > +M:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> > +L:	b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.net
> > +S:	Maintained (one day soon)
> > +F:	drivers/staging/batman-adv/
> 
> Care to at least cc: the people who you are adding to the file?
> 
> To not do so is a bit rude, don't you think so?
> 
> I'm not going to take this, sorry.


Sure he should have cc-ed them, but it's still a valid patch and should
be applied.

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~Randy
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