Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756320Ab1CALxm (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:53:42 -0500 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:4003 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756284Ab1CALxl (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:53:41 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/18] MAINTAINERS: Remove unnecessary linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org entries From: Joe Perches To: Mark Brown Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20110301112038.GA12568@sirena.org.uk> References: <03b0dc89c5badbc0b8f155ecdd5912cad3e278f2.1298439175.git.joe@perches.com> <20110301112038.GA12568@sirena.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:53:39 -0800 Message-ID: <1298980419.4367.18.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1739 Lines: 43 On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:20 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:41:58PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > CC'ing lkml is the default and doesn't need separate entries. > I've run into a noticeable number of issues with users not parsing this > convention as expected and sending only direct to maintainer mail for > things that have no list. For the amount of space it saves in the file > I'm not sure it's worth removing such entries. Yes that's certainly possible, but it's a trade-off given the number of people that would not otherwise CC lkml after seeing some MAINTAINERS entries with L: linux-kernel@vger... and some entries without. It might also be worthwhile to to update Documentation/SubmittingPatches. Currently, it says to do what you find inappropriate, direct mails to listed maintainers without cc'ing a list. It also does not mention scripts/get_maintainer.pl. ------------------------------------------------------------- 5) Select e-mail destination. Look through the MAINTAINERS file and the source code, and determine if your change applies to a specific subsystem of the kernel, with an assigned maintainer. If so, e-mail that person. If no maintainer is listed, or the maintainer does not respond, send your patch to the primary Linux kernel developer's mailing list, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org. Most kernel developers monitor this e-mail list, and can comment on your changes. ------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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/