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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ksummit-2010-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org" 
	<ksummit-2010-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add U: for URL of todo list, add RCU todo list
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:15:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100901101518.GB17491@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimuWwneVz=+5uPK=N7gQ2=TCWC2jj7ErNg0CedN@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 01:03:07PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Mark Brown

> > My experience is that there's an awful lot of people working with
> > whatever kernel has been provided by their vendor rather than getting
> > kernels direct from kernel.org and they tend to only look as far as the
> > tarball (or other package) they got.

> People that are working with vendor provided kernels do not tend to
> contribute upstream. And those who want to contribute will find what
> MAINTAINERS is.

While the majority of people won't contribute upstream some do, or come
looking for support, and MAINTAINERS doesn't seem entirely reliable.  I
think some people are expecting it to be for maintainers rather than a
list of them.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-01 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-26 15:45 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add U: for URL of todo list, add RCU todo list Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-26 15:51 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-08-26 16:03   ` [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add W: todo lists Joe Perches
2010-08-26 15:51 ` [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add U: for URL of todo list, add RCU todo list Joe Perches
2010-08-26 16:14   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-26 16:18     ` Joe Perches
2010-08-26 16:25     ` [Ksummit-2010-discuss] " James Bottomley
2010-08-26 16:29       ` Randy Dunlap
2010-08-26 16:34         ` James Bottomley
2010-08-26 16:38         ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-08-26 16:42           ` Jiri Kosina
2010-08-26 17:00             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-08-31 17:23           ` Steven Rostedt
2010-08-31 23:02             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-31 23:17               ` Steven Rostedt
2010-08-31 23:19                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-08-31 23:25                 ` Luck, Tony
2010-08-31 23:46                   ` Joe Perches
2010-09-01  0:23                     ` Eric Paris
2010-09-01  0:34                       ` Joe Perches
2010-09-01  8:54                         ` Mark Brown
2010-09-01 10:03                           ` Mike Rapoport
2010-09-01 10:15                             ` Mark Brown [this message]
2010-09-01 10:02                       ` Alan Cox
2010-08-27  9:19         ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-26 16:30       ` Joe Perches
2010-08-26 16:45       ` Joe Perches
2010-08-26 16:50       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-26 23:00         ` Sarah Sharp
2010-08-26 23:23           ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-30  1:40             ` Neil Brown
2010-08-30 15:19               ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-08-26 23:30           ` Joe Perches
2010-08-26 20:47 ` [rfc] MAINTAINERS: Remove broken URLs Joe Perches
2010-08-26 20:49   ` Roland Dreier
2010-08-26 22:28   ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-08-26 22:37     ` Joe Perches
2010-08-26 22:45       ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-08-26 22:38   ` rdunlap
2010-08-27 13:46   ` John W. Linville

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