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SubjectRe: [PATCH] pcmcia: add another ide-cs CF card id
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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