From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752180AbcAFVim (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2016 16:38:42 -0500 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:42423 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751708AbcAFVij (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2016 16:38:39 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 14:38:21 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Dan Carpenter Cc: Rohit , Laura Abbott , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, arve@android.com, riandrews@android.com, gioh.kim@lge.com, sumit.semwal@linaro.org, mitchelh@codeaurora.org, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk, shawn.lin@rock-chips.com, sriram@marirs.net.in, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pintu.k@samsung.com, vishnu.ps@samsung.com, sreenathd@samsung.com, pintu_agarwal@yahoo.com, cpgs@samsung.com, me.rohit@live.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/ion: Add support to get ion handle from dma buf Message-ID: <20160106143821.2660d02e@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20160106090622.GG23363@mwanda> References: <1451998982-15654-1-git-send-email-rohit.kr@samsung.com> <568C0797.9010606@redhat.com> <20160106105523.10be1f56@rohitk-ubuntu.sisodomain.com> <20160106090622.GG23363@mwanda> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.12.0 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 12:06:22 +0300 Dan Carpenter wrote: > It's not really necessary to CC linux-kernel. No one reads it. I have to take issue with this too; more of us read it than you might think. The fact that we're probably all crazy doesn't really figure into it. Think of linux-kernel as the blockchain of kernel development; it's a messy thing that takes a lot of resources to maintain (and keep up with), but when you need to see what happened (or is happening) it's invaluable. jon