From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751793AbdFHTkP (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2017 15:40:15 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:44090 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751528AbdFHTkO (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2017 15:40:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 21:39:17 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: David Miller , Kyle McMartin , Kalle Valo , postmaster@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Daniel Wagner , David Woodhouse , Arend Van Spriel , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "Li, Yi" , atull@kernel.org, Moritz Fischer , Petr Mladek , Johannes Berg , Emmanuel Grumbach , Luciano Coelho , Andy Lutomirski , Kees Cook , "AKASHI, Takahiro" , David Howells , Peter Jones , Hans de Goede , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Tom Gundersen Subject: Re: New vger mailing list request - linux-firmware Message-ID: <20170608193917.GA19849@kroah.com> References: <87poee4rwt.fsf@codeaurora.org> <20170608161942.GP27288@wotan.suse.de> <20170608.140904.2160287009636313040.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 12:06:55PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 11:09 AM, David Miller wrote: > > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" > > Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 18:19:42 +0200 > > > >> On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 02:53:22PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > >>> "Luis R. Rodriguez" writes: > >>> > >>> > Dear vger postmaster, > >>> > > >>> > I think its time for a linux-firmware mailing list. If one is possible > >>> > on vger that'd be great, otherwise let me know and I can look for an > >>> > alternative outlet. > >>> > > >>> > I've been giving linux-firmware some good love as of late. One of the > >>> > issues I have seen with old commits had been lack of eyeball reviews, > >>> > and and also ensuring the "right people" do review and get CC'd. While > >>> > I do tend to CC everyone and their mom, its easy for me to know who > >>> > should be as I'm maintaining the code now -- but I see some folks fail > >>> > to capture everyone I know should be reviewing things or might like to > >>> > get Cc'd on such topics. Tools like checkpatch help but its not > >>> > perfect and now everyone use it. Instead of CC'ing everyone I know > >>> > should be Cc'd on linux-firmware stuff I think its time for a proper > >>> > mailing list for it. > >>> > > >>> > This should also help with reviewing old patches and letting new folks > >>> > engage more easily by looking at specific dedicate archive of what's > >>> > going on. > >>> > >>> There's already linux-firmware@kernel.org (an alias I think, not sure) > >> > >> Ah, yes thanks. > >> > >>> for submitting patches to linux-firmware.git. I think it will be > >>> confusing if we will have two separate linux-firmware destinations under > >>> kernel.org domain: > >>> > >>> linux-firmware@kernel.org > >>> linux-firmware@vger.kernel.org > >>> > >>> Maybe rename the new list to linux-fw-dev@vger.kernel.org or something > >>> like that to make it more obvious which one is which? > >> > >> Yeah good call. That's fine by me, but I'll leave it to postmaster to > >> also decide. > > > > One list is enough, I think. > > Oh, thing is linux-firmware@kernel.org is for patches to the > linux-firmare.git tree, meanwhile my request was for > drivers/base/firmware_class.c, its respective headers and > documentation. I really don't think folks who want to see changes to > the firmware_class changes want to see any of the binary blobs that go > into linux-firmware.git. Does a single file, or just a few files, really need a whole new mailing list? I don't think so, let's just stick with lkml for now. thanks greg k-h