From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
zbr@ioremap.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] connector: make callback argument type explicit
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:33:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090717223307.d86a5551.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0907172045j2cff6987xb7ea0aab438bef9d@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:45:35 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 13:15, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
> >>
> >> Your patches look good, thanks a lot.
> >> David, please apply to the appropriate tree.
> >
> > Applied to net-next-2.6, but I am being very generous.
> >
> > In the future please make sure netdev@vger.kernel.org receives all
> > networking patch postings so that they properly get tracked at:
> >
> > __ __ __ __http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/
> >
> > Otherwise they risk getting lost.
>
> the fact that the connector code is maintained in the net tree is not
> mentioned anywhere that i can see. it isnt in net/, it isnt in
> drivers/net/, and it isnt in MAINTAINERS. that means anyone who
> wishes to submit patches has to basically guess where to send them.
> going by the default rules, that means the author (Evgeniy) and LKML.
> expecting people to magically divine net ownership with this driver is
> ridiculous.
y:/usr/src/git26> perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/connector/*.c
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Major fail!
A MAINTAINERS record should fix that up.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-18 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-15 22:14 [PATCH 1/3] connector: make callback argument type explicit Mike Frysinger
2009-07-15 22:14 ` [PATCH 2/3] connector: clean up grammar/style in documentation Mike Frysinger
2009-07-16 9:15 ` Will Newton
2009-07-16 17:58 ` [PATCH 2/3 v2] " Mike Frysinger
2009-07-15 22:14 ` [PATCH 3/3] connector: get test code working by default Mike Frysinger
2009-07-16 10:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] connector: make callback argument type explicit Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-07-17 17:15 ` David Miller
2009-07-18 3:45 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-07-18 5:33 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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