On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 02:53:22PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] (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: > > [email protected] > [email protected] > > Maybe rename the new list to [email protected] 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. Luis
