Re: New vger mailing list request - linux-firmware

Kalle Valo
2017-06-08T11:53:42Z

"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> 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)
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?

--
Kalle Valo