netdev - Re: decnet: /proc/sys/net/decnet sysctl entries disappear

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Message-ID: <1360695306.3050.12.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:55:06 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Larry Baker <baker@...s.gov>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: decnet: /proc/sys/net/decnet sysctl entries disappear

On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 10:28 -0800, Larry Baker wrote:
> David,
> 
> On 11 Feb 2013, at 8:53 PM, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Never email developers privately, ever.  It is both rude and
> > also a very poor use of global developer resources.
> > 
> > Always ask on the appropriate, public, mailing list, so that
> > any developer, not just me, can answer you.
> 
> I'm sorry you feel this way.  Other developers have been very gracious
> in offering assistance and encouragement to solve this problem.  I was
> following the instructions in Documentation/SubmittingPatches you
> guided me to.  Specifically, the instructions to locate the assigned
> maintainer and "e-mail that person".

It should also say to mail the related list(s); that's apparently a
documentation error.

> > 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.  The script
> > scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be very useful at this step.
> > 
> > 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@...r.kernel.org.  Most kernel developers monitor this
> > e-mail list, and can comment on your changes.
> 
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl said that was you.

David Miller is in overall charge of networking, so for any code under
drivers/net/ or net/ that doesn't have its own maintainer, he'll show up
as the primary maintainer.  But in reality I doubt he spends much time
thinking about relatively obscure areas that have lost their specialist
maintainer.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
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