Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: use relevant mailing lists

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:31:40 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:08:57 -0700 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > +	Use the relevant mailing list(s) -- don't just send everything to
> > +	lkml (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org).
> 
> True.
> 
> I personally only troll lkml for unloved patches, so I suspect that a
> random patch which is sent to mailing-list-A and not to lkml has a higher
> probability of getting lost than one which is sent to both lists.  Plus
> it'd be nice to get lkml's patch-to-noise ratio above one percent.

Yes (to P-N ratio).

I'd really like to see netdev patches going to netdev (only :)
and SCSI patches to linux-scsi (only), e.g., unless they actually
address some linux-arch like issue(s).

However, those maintainers are quite different regarding patch
handling.  Maybe you could try to address some of that at that
Cambridge/September event.

> So I'd suggest that you rework the text here to make it clearer that
> patches should go to lkml _and_ to the subsystem-specific mailing list.

Patch is withdrawn.

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~Randy
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