Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pcmcia: add another ide-cs CF card id | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:02:22 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 07:38 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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
I would turn this around
IDE impacting change -> IDE reviewers
network driver impacting change -> network reviewers
the reason for the review is because of the impact, not because a file happens to live in a certain directory.
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