On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 02:40:58PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: >On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 14:22 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:10:23 -0700 >> Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: >> > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 09:29 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: >> > > Add a MAINTAINERS entry for the hypervisor virtual console support >> > > used on IBM POWER servers. >> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS >> > > index c5f4e9d..387ad45 100644 >> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS >> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS >> > > @@ -2176,6 +2176,11 @@ W: http://www.ia64-linux.org/ >> > > T: git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git >> > > S: Maintained >> > > >> > > +IBM HYPERVISOR VIRTUAL CONSOLE >> > > +P: Several >> > > +L: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org >> > > +S: Maintained >> > > + >> > > IBM MCA SCSI SUBSYSTEM DRIVER >> > > P: Michael Lang >> > > M: lan...@kph.uni-mainz.de >> > >> > I think this sort of entry should not be acceptable. >> > Maintainers should have individual names and contact addresses. >> >> There isn't a maintainer. >> >> But people send patches to the wrong list, so the ppc guys (who use >> this driver) don't get to see them. >> >> That's a practical, real-world problem. We should have a fix for it. >> >> > An exploder entry should be OK though. >> > For instance, the DVB subsystem: >> > >> > DVB SUBSYSTEM AND DRIVERS >> > P: LinuxTV.org Project >> > M: linux-me...@vger.kernel.org >> > >> > A list entry could be something like: >> > >> > P: Linux PCMCIA Team >> > L: linux-pcm...@lists.infradead.org >> > >> >> I'm unclear on what the difference is here.. > >I have no problem with the "L: list" entry. >I think that's good. Along with some file >matching pattern as well of course... > >I think the "P: Several" entry is not good. > >"Several" doesn't give any idea as to who >actually does the work.
I copied that from something else in MAINTAINERS. I believe it was the KERNEL JANITORS entry. I guess I should have known better than to copy from that... >If the "P:" entry is there at all, it should >be the list name. > >Maybe "P: Linux PPC Development Team" or >something similar. Except that isn't right for the reasons Michael specified. josh _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
