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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Jonathan A. George" <JAGeorge@greshamstorage.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6 udev capability question
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 13:24:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031007202412.GF2670@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F831AAB.9040000@greshamstorage.com>

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 02:57:31PM -0500, Jonathan A. George wrote:
> >Will do.  Why did you not ask this there in the first place?  Sending
> >email directly to developers isn't the nicest thing to do:
> >	http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/news/?newsitem=11
> >thanks,
> >
> >greg k-h
> >
> Thanks for your response.

As you sent this to me privately, I take it you didn't read the above
link?

> Is there an official udev web page or forum?

No, nothing is ever "official" :)

The linux-hotplug-devel mailing list has been a good place to discuss
udev stuff.

> As to why not use mailing list in the first place:  A. Who wants to get 
> flamed by Al in public. ;-)  B. Giving consideration to the developer 
> who might want to discuss the issue before exposing it to a public 
> forum.  I probably have sent about 50 emails to the LKML over the last 
> eight years on topics from VMM to SCSI to SCM, but sometimes it seems 
> better to directly address the relevant developer.  Not everyone 
> subscribes to the list after all. ;-)

But it saves developer time, which is in much shorter supply than "users
who don't read the documentation time" it seems...

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-07 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3F830C49.5070103@greshamstorage.com>
2003-10-07 19:05 ` Linux 2.6 udev capability question Greg KH
     [not found]   ` <3F831AAB.9040000@greshamstorage.com>
2003-10-07 20:24     ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-10-07 20:34       ` Acknowledgement Jonathan A. George

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