Re: New vger mailing list request - linux-firmware

Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-06-08T19:07:29Z

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 11:09 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> 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.

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.

Luis