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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:20:30 -0700 From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Jarod Wilson <jarod@...sonet.com>, Jakub Schmidtke <sjakub@...il.com>, Henk de Groot <pe1dnn@...at.org>, Naren Sankar <nsankar@...adcom.com>, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@...eros.com>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Mori Hess <fmhess@...rs.sourceforge.net>, Steve Underwood <steveu@...pice.org>, Simon Wunderlich <siwu@....tu-chemnitz.de>, Arnaud Patard <apatard@...driva.com>, Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@...oo.de>, Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@...iconmotion.com.cn>, Ossama Othman <ossama.othman@...el.com>, Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>, Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>, Willy Tarreau <willy@...a-x.org>, Scott Davilla <davilla@....com>, Scott Smedley <ss@....gov.au>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Forest Bond <forest@...ttletooquiet.net>, David Rowe <david@...etel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] MAINTAINERS: Add drivers/staging entries On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 17:07 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 02:26:22PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 14:12 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 11:49:34AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > Some drivers/staging directories use a TODO file with email entries. > > > > Make the same entries in the normal MAINTAINERS file. > > > No, please don't do this. I don't want to clutter up the MAINTAINERS > > > file with staging stuff. > > It's not clutter when it helps get patches to the right reviewers > > or responsible parties. > That's my job as staging maintainer, right? Am I somehow not doing this > properly? You can take on all the jobs you want, but automated tools that allow others to perform those actions and simultaneously reduce individual workload are better. > > > I also found it a bit odd you didn't send these to the stable subsystem > > > maintainer, why? > > The MAINTAINERS patches are forward going, not historical. > What does that mean? It means that relatively few people are developing against old kernel versions and patches to MAINTAINERS rarely, if ever, need backporting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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