Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Date | Thu, 8 Jun 2017 13:11:18 -0700 | Subject | Re: New vger mailing list request - linux-firmware |
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On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 12:06:55PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 11:09 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: >> > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> >> > Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 18:19:42 +0200 >> > >> >> On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 02:53:22PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: >> >>> "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> writes: >> >>> >> >>> > Dear vger postmaster, >> >>> > >> >>> > I think its time for a linux-firmware mailing list. If one is possible >> >>> > on vger that'd be great, otherwise let me know and I can look for an >> >>> > alternative outlet. >> >>> > >> >>> > I've been giving linux-firmware some good love as of late. One of the >> >>> > issues I have seen with old commits had been lack of eyeball reviews, >> >>> > and and also ensuring the "right people" do review and get CC'd. While >> >>> > I do tend to CC everyone and their mom, its easy for me to know who >> >>> > should be as I'm maintaining the code now -- but I see some folks fail >> >>> > to capture everyone I know should be reviewing things or might like to >> >>> > get Cc'd on such topics. Tools like checkpatch help but its not >> >>> > perfect and now everyone use it. Instead of CC'ing everyone I know >> >>> > should be Cc'd on linux-firmware stuff I think its time for a proper >> >>> > mailing list for it. >> >>> > >> >>> > This should also help with reviewing old patches and letting new folks >> >>> > engage more easily by looking at specific dedicate archive of what's >> >>> > going on. >> >>> >> >>> There's already linux-firmware@kernel.org (an alias I think, not sure) >> >> >> >> Ah, yes thanks. >> >> >> >>> for submitting patches to linux-firmware.git. I think it will be >> >>> confusing if we will have two separate linux-firmware destinations under >> >>> kernel.org domain: >> >>> >> >>> linux-firmware@kernel.org >> >>> linux-firmware@vger.kernel.org >> >>> >> >>> Maybe rename the new list to linux-fw-dev@vger.kernel.org or something >> >>> like that to make it more obvious which one is which? >> >> >> >> Yeah good call. That's fine by me, but I'll leave it to postmaster to >> >> also decide. >> > >> > One list is enough, I think. >> >> Oh, thing is linux-firmware@kernel.org is for patches to the >> linux-firmare.git tree, meanwhile my request was for >> drivers/base/firmware_class.c, its respective headers and >> documentation. I really don't think folks who want to see changes to >> the firmware_class changes want to see any of the binary blobs that go >> into linux-firmware.git. > > Does a single file, or just a few files, really need a whole new mailing > list? I don't think so, let's just stick with lkml for now.
Do users deserve the amount of silly regressions and issues we've seen over the years on firmware_class ? Would yet-another mailing list help ? I think so.
Luis
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