Re: [PATCH] TIPC: add Kconfig help text

[Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>]

That has also been fixed, but not pulled in yet. Same reason as above.
///jon

Jesper Juhl wrote:

>On 1/17/06, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 1/17/06, Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com> wrote:
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>>>I've already committed a patch similar to this in our GIT repo
>>>(http://tipc.cslab.ericsson.net), just haven't asked for it to be pulled
>>>yet since we have another fix for some namespace pullution in the
>>>pipeline. Thanks though!
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>>Good enough for me :-)
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>Let me just pick another little nit here.
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>Your entries in the MAINTAINERS file for TIPC;
>Would it be too much to ask that you list the *correct* email
>addresses for people in there instead of the @nospam.ericsson.com
>obfuscated ones?
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>As I see it, listing the obfuscated addresses buys you nothing, since
>you are using the real address to post to a public (and widely
>archived) mailing list anyway, and has a few real drawbacks:
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>- some users (especially users who are not native english speakers)
>may not realize that the "nospam." bit should be taken out and thus
>you may miss emails.
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>- it adds extra work (small, but still) on everyone who looks up the
>maintainer for TIPC to send you guys emails to parse the addr and
>realize the addr needs to be edited and then actually edit it instead
>of just cut'n'paste.
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>- it's somewhat annoying.
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>I even opted to send the patch to both the @nospam.ericsson.com and
>@ericsson.com addresses since I didn't know if "nospam." was to be
>taken out or if it was just some subdomain you used specifically for
>communication on public lists that you then did extra SPAM filtering
>on - there's no way to know.
>If you are worried about getting extra SPAM by being listed in
>MAINTAINERS, why don't you just create an extra email alias that you
>list in MAINTAINERS and use for LKML stuff - that alias you can then
>do extra filtering on, dump in a seperate mailbox/folder/whatever... I
>don't think you actually gain anything by your current scheeme.
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>I'll stop ranting now ;)
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