On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/20/2013 08:25 PM, Brian Norris wrote: >> Hello device tree maintainers, >> >> I (sub)maintain the Linux MTD subsystem and hang out on the >> linux-mtd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list. I have been seeing an increasing >> number of submissions that involve device-tree changes. Many of these >> changes are ill thought out and may even cause ABI breakage. >> >> According to discussions I've seen on LKML, you want to see better >> bindings merged into the kernel, and you want to maintain more control >> over the acceptance of bindings in general. However, I see a few >> problems that have inhibited this. >> >> (1) Mailing list change: it just so happens that you recently moved >> your mailing list to @vger.kernel.org. Some people are still CC'ing >> the old one (if they CC any DT list at all). I'm not sure what can be >> done about this, exactly. Perhaps a forwarding rule + a warning >> response would have been better for a transition period, rather than >> just shutting down and rejecting from the old one. > > Indeed. Grant, can you do anything about this? >> (2) Responsiveness: when we finally do CC devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, >> I don't see much feedback, even for those which (when I get around to >> reviewing them myself) look like they have obvious issues that >> device-tree maintainers should care about. > > The problem here is that the mail volume is extremely high. Even keeping > up with the content that I'm explicitly CC'd on is difficult, let alone > the stuff that goes to the list that doesn't CC the binding maintainers. In the few hours I have been subscribed to the devicetree list, I already understand this point. Other than avoiding the old mailing list, then I don't think there's much we can do. Brian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
