Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), list | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Thu, 01 May 2008 11:05:59 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 11:55 +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote: > It's great that more attention is being paid to the use of Linux in > embedded systems. And the MAINTAINERS file is probably the right file > to add the above information. But I'm afraid that the way the above > information is formatted will cause confusion. As an example, recently > there was a driver added to the Linux kernel for the PCF8575 chip. > This is an I2C chip that is only used in embedded systems. Regarding > driver review, should any such drivers be sent to the I2C mailing > list, the embedded mailing list or both ? The MAINTAINERS file should > be clear on this.
The I²C list would be the best place to send such a patch. You could also copy it to the linux-embedded list if it's likely to be of interest to a reasonable proportion of "embedded" developers, but that wouldn't be the primary route into Linus' tree for most things.
I can't really see any way to make that clear in the MAINTAINERS file that wouldn't be clumsy and just as confusing -- I think it'll work out just fine by itself. Do you have a concrete proposal?
-- dwmw2
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