Re: New vger mailing list request - linux-firmware

David Miller
2017-06-08T18:09:09Z

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