Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756344Ab1CAL5Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:57:25 -0500 Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:35706 "EHLO opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752847Ab1CAL5Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2011 06:57:25 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 11:57:23 +0000 From: Mark Brown To: Joe Perches Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/18] MAINTAINERS: Remove unnecessary linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org entries Message-ID: <20110301115723.GB9662@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <03b0dc89c5badbc0b8f155ecdd5912cad3e278f2.1298439175.git.joe@perches.com> <20110301112038.GA12568@sirena.org.uk> <1298980419.4367.18.camel@Joe-Laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1298980419.4367.18.camel@Joe-Laptop> X-Cookie: Your present plans will be successful. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1243 Lines: 29 On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 03:53:39AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:20 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > 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. Yeah, I'd be in favour of adding back all the other ones that were removed when the decision to keep the lkml references out of the file was taken. > It might also be worthwhile to to update > Documentation/SubmittingPatches. It's not actually patches which have been the biggest problem here - a lot of it has been people with questions about the code or in the pre-submission stage. -- 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/