linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH docs] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers

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Message-ID: <a7d0381c-c99e-4dba-9156-cc07a86bdc39@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:59:08 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>, corbet@....net,
        workflows@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH docs] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small
 time maintainers

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 10:22:18AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 08:24:38 +0200 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> > Also: It's totally normal that commercial vendor contribute basic
> > drivers with known problems and missing features (some of which will
> > never be implemented). The latter will be considered a "bug" for quite a
> > few users that read this. Those suddenly thus might becomes something
> > they now "must" fix, which leads to questions: how fast? just in
> > mainline, or in stable, too?

> If we try to fend off anyone who doesn't understand common meaning 
> of words the document will be very long and painful to read.

That's true, but "bug" is one of those things where there is a frequent
disconnect on definitions, and when coupled with the must respond bit I
can see things going wrong.

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