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Message-ID: <20100901101518.GB17491@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:15:18 +0100
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@...il.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"ksummit-2010-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org"
<ksummit-2010-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
"mingo@...e.hu" <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add U: for URL of
todo list, add RCU todo list
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 01:03:07PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Mark Brown
> > My experience is that there's an awful lot of people working with
> > whatever kernel has been provided by their vendor rather than getting
> > kernels direct from kernel.org and they tend to only look as far as the
> > tarball (or other package) they got.
> People that are working with vendor provided kernels do not tend to
> contribute upstream. And those who want to contribute will find what
> MAINTAINERS is.
While the majority of people won't contribute upstream some do, or come
looking for support, and MAINTAINERS doesn't seem entirely reliable. I
think some people are expecting it to be for maintainers rather than a
list of them.
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