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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.