From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE1CC433E3 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2020 14:54:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DD5B22B40 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2020 14:54:03 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1598453643; bh=2keurcFsfkeACh52+4p5T0ngZFhF0/cvWdgnziyfZAU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=1HPup5GBz+buyRi/F+JQLWNPRprb0nBZ5p3Uuc/Mfc27aP42LFMotywwsE/ZWM3k4 iVaeFeqjhAYUxrNXBKPzRZJRLDs3p0WlZ4lQ76EApzKNC/TzfUB25aeIkNqJ4nuwLi Zo5+Hm9aEk/BzWkzPIOCU0rW6itRCOo83xSLdYUs= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728334AbgHZOyC (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2020 10:54:02 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:41128 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727944AbgHZOxh (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2020 10:53:37 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CAB98221E2; Wed, 26 Aug 2020 14:53:35 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1598453616; bh=2keurcFsfkeACh52+4p5T0ngZFhF0/cvWdgnziyfZAU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=W+jQFBX9Y2cFQQnnBpOO8pRXn7pkU3ktYS6fim4jFRisgluZ5eT/WDBaaLAjzeXDT WvB6ehRk9ClWtUh6A8MwBFdceThH+yepXYWz0ahlL0dj01Yciozp4zN36CSyrhd+W2 3+ktczweQwjZoa/4RGN1dY0ACA98suwt+CZGrbFY= Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:53:51 +0200 From: Greg KH To: "David K. Kahurani" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, admin@rapidseedbox.com, gichini.ngaruiya@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.7 00/15] 5.7.19-rc1 review Message-ID: <20200826145351.GA4181729@kroah.com> References: <20200826114849.295321031@linuxfoundation.org> <20200826144915.GD16589@metal> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200826144915.GD16589@metal> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 05:49:15PM +0300, David K. Kahurani wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 02:02:28PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > ------------------- > > Note, ok, this is really going to be the final 5.7.y kernel release. I > > mean it this time.... > > ------------------- > > Hello, > > This is probably not very relevant but let me just bring this up here > since your manner of posting mail on the list seems to differ quite a > bit from what most people on the list are doing. It's not all that relevant as what I am doing here is not what anyone else on this list is doing :) > From my understanding, an email regarding to a certain patch or kernel > issue should be sent to a list and not to a maintainer. This is > however not the habit that people are in, though but instead, most > people will send the email to the maintainers, then cc a few probably > random mailing lists. This leads to emails flooding on the mailing > list and consequently, beats the purpose of one ever having sent the > mail to a list because lists will get increasingly difficult to > follow. So is the complaint that these stable -rc emails are drowning out seeing other patches that are relevant? If so, there are some wonderfully helpfuly headers that I add to all of these emails so you can easily filter them away to /dev/null if you so desire. If not, then I don't understand the complaint. > Is it just me who has made this observation? From your mail, it > clearly looks and seems like you are following the above. Not > following the above could make it very hard for a new kernel developer > to pick up working on the kernel. Have you read the Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst file? If not, please start there, as trying to read the firehose that is lkml all at once is _not_ how anyone does kernel development. thanks, greg k-h