From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] Documentation: add networking/netdev-FAQ.txt Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 21:34:11 -0500 Message-ID: <1375670051.8422.6@driftwood> References: <1375298180-17628-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: "David S. Miller" , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Paul Gortmaker To: Paul Gortmaker Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1375298180-17628-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> (from paul.gortmaker@windriver.com on Wed Jul 31 14:16:20 2013) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 07/31/2013 02:16:20 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > A collection of expectations and operational details about how > networking development takes place in the context of the netdev > mailing list. http://vger.kernel.org has 149 mailing lists, and that's maybe half of the kernel lists out there. (The linux foundation's got a bunch, the device tree list just switched servers, etc.) Why is this list special? > +++ b/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt > @@ -0,0 +1,224 @@ > + > +Information you need to know about netdev > +----------------------------------------- > + > +Q: What is netdev? > + > +A: It is a mailing list for all network related linux stuff. This > includes > + anything found under net/ (i.e. core code like IPv6) and > drivers/net > + (i.e. hardware specific drivers) in the linux source tree. I'm all for having this somewhere, but this is a silly place for it. Putting it in linux/Documentation means you'll frequently tell newbies "read the FAQ, except it's not on the web, we stuck it in a subdirectory of a sudirectory of the kernel source because that's the obvious place to stick the FAQ for a mailing list". Rob