Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 02 Mar 2006 07:38:49 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pcmcia: add another ide-cs CF card id |
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Russell King wrote: > I think it's fairly safe and obvious to say that Dominik is the peer > review for these tables - he _is_ the PCMCIA maintainer, he _is_ > arguably the maintainer for the ide-cs driver, he _is_ the person > who invented these tables, he _is_ the one taking patches from people > to add IDs, he _is_ the one reviewing such patches. > > If you want to know what's going on in PCMCIA land, subscribe to > linux-pcmcia. In the same way that if you want to know what's going > in in IDE land, you subscribe to linux-ide, or PCI land linux-pci, > SCSI land linux-scsi, network land netdev. > > Using your argument (which seems to be demanding that any patch to > any IDE driver no matter how trivial must be on linux-ide) that a patch > to a PCI network device driver must be copied to linux-pci and netdev > even though it may not touch the PCI specific code.
IDE driver -> IDE reviewers
network driver -> network reviewers
The bus associated with the driver is only a tiny detail. Many drivers (IDE!) are multi-bus, even.
Linus occasionally complains about stuff hiding on non-LKML lists... Even a CC to LKML would have been sufficient here. That was not done.
Jeff
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