On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > (and this is in no way directed at the networking folks - it holds > > > for all of us. I have one main complaint about networking: the > > > separate netdev list is a bad idea - networking regressions should > > > be discussed and fixed on lkml, like most other subsystems are. Any > > > artificial split of the lk discussion space is bad.) > > > > but here I disagree. LKML is already too busy and noisy. Major > > subsystems need their own discussion areas. > > That's a stupid argument. We lose much more by forced isolation of > discussion than what we win by having less traffic! It's _MUCH_ easier > to narrow down information (by filter by threads, by topics, by people, > etc.) than it is to gobble information together from various fractured > sources. We learned it _again and again_ that isolation of kernel > discussions causes bad things. > > In fact this thread is the very example: David points out that on netdev > some of those bugs were already discussed and resolved. Had it been all > on lkml we'd all be aware of it. or had <someone> been on netdev. > this is a single kernel project that is released together as one > codebase, so a central place of discussion is obvious and common-sense. Central doesn't have to mean one-and-only-one-list-for-everything. > so please stop this "too busy and too noisy" nonsense already. It was > nonsense 10 years ago and it's nonsense today. In 10 years the kernel > grew from a 1 million lines codebase to an 8 million lines codebase, so > what? Deal with it and be intelligent about filtering your information > influx instead of imposing a hard pre-filtering criteria that restricts > intelligent processing of information. So you have a preferred method of handling email. Please don't force it on the rest of us. I'll plan to use lkml-list-only when you have convinced DaveM to drop all of the other mailing lists at vger.kernel.org. Yeah, sure. --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
