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Date:	Sun, 04 Aug 2013 21:34:11 -0500
From:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] Documentation: add networking/netdev-FAQ.txt

On 07/31/2013 02:16:20 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> A collection of expectations and operational details about how
> networking development takes place in the context of the netdev
> mailing list.

http://vger.kernel.org has 149 mailing lists, and that's maybe half of  
the kernel lists out there. (The linux foundation's got a bunch, the  
device tree list just switched servers, etc.)

Why is this list special?

> +++ b/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,224 @@
> +
> +Information you need to know about netdev
> +-----------------------------------------
> +
> +Q: What is netdev?
> +
> +A: It is a mailing list for all network related linux stuff.  This  
> includes
> +   anything found under net/  (i.e. core code like IPv6) and  
> drivers/net
> +   (i.e. hardware specific drivers) in the linux source tree.

I'm all for having this somewhere, but this is a silly place for it.

Putting it in linux/Documentation means you'll frequently tell newbies  
"read the FAQ, except it's not on the web, we stuck it in a  
subdirectory of a sudirectory of the kernel source because that's the  
obvious place to stick the FAQ for a mailing list".

Rob--
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