From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:20:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] Export SMBIOS provided firmware instance and label Message-Id: <20100726182019.GA5144@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20100723133456.GA9378@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <20100723135557.GA3624@kroah.com> <20100723145809.GA7629@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <20100723145809.GA7629@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matt Domsch Cc: Narendra K , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, charles_rose@dell.com, jordan_hargrave@dell.com, vijay_nijhawan@dell.com On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:58:09AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 06:55:57AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 08:34:56AM -0500, Narendra K wrote: > > > --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci > > > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci > > > @@ -179,3 +179,30 @@ Contact: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org > > > Description: > > > This symbolic link points to the PCI hotplug controller driver > > > module that manages the hotplug slot. > > > + > > > +What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../label > > > +Date: July 2010 > > > +Contact: linux-bugs@dell.com > > > > that's not your email address. Please don't hide behind some random > > address, Linux is about contacting developers directly were ever > > possible. > > That's actually the public email address for the whole Linux > engineering team (including engineers and managers) at Dell, of which > Narendra is a part. It's the address we publish for people to include > on the cc: list of bugzilla issues on the kernel.org, Novell, and Red > Hat bugzillas. This ensures someone on the team will see bug reports > or patches and act accordingly, likely Narendra, but could be anyone > in the future once Narendra is promoted or changes responsibilities > (or even employers). Ok, I don't really like it, but if that's what Dell wants to do, I guess it's acceptable. thanks, greg k-h