From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: decnet: /proc/sys/net/decnet sysctl entries disappear Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:55:06 +0000 Message-ID: <1360695306.3050.12.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> References: <20130211.200944.1447109432418679998.davem@davemloft.net> <8EAAA907-914A-4670-BAAF-ABC95C0838CA@usgs.gov> <20130211.235347.25383457019933412.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: To: Larry Baker Return-path: Received: from webmail.solarflare.com ([12.187.104.25]:43953 "EHLO webmail.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933876Ab3BLSzV (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:55:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 10:28 -0800, Larry Baker wrote: > David, > > On 11 Feb 2013, at 8:53 PM, David Miller wrote: > > > > > Never email developers privately, ever. It is both rude and > > also a very poor use of global developer resources. > > > > Always ask on the appropriate, public, mailing list, so that > > any developer, not just me, can answer you. > > I'm sorry you feel this way. Other developers have been very gracious > in offering assistance and encouragement to solve this problem. I was > following the instructions in Documentation/SubmittingPatches you > guided me to. Specifically, the instructions to locate the assigned > maintainer and "e-mail that person". It should also say to mail the related list(s); that's apparently a documentation error. > > 5) Select e-mail destination. > > > > Look through the MAINTAINERS file and the source code, and determine > > if your change applies to a specific subsystem of the kernel, with > > an assigned maintainer. If so, e-mail that person. The script > > scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be very useful at this step. > > > > If no maintainer is listed, or the maintainer does not respond, send > > your patch to the primary Linux kernel developer's mailing list, > > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org. Most kernel developers monitor this > > e-mail list, and can comment on your changes. > > scripts/get_maintainer.pl said that was you. David Miller is in overall charge of networking, so for any code under drivers/net/ or net/ that doesn't have its own maintainer, he'll show up as the primary maintainer. But in reality I doubt he spends much time thinking about relatively obscure areas that have lost their specialist maintainer. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.