On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 16:17 +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > Nicholas, > > Could you stop spamming linux-kernel and linux-scsi mailing lists by > patches for your out-of-tree LIO project, please? > > Those mailing lists are intended for patches for in-kernel components > only, not for all out-of-tree projects, finding their ways into the > mainline. I don't see any reason why your project should be an > exception. Think, what a mess the kernel mailing lists would get, if all > out-of-tree projects started sending their patches to them? Actually, out of tree projects trying to make their way upstream are welcome to use the various linux- mailing lists to solicit feedback and review. This method was, for instance, how FCoE made it in. > My personal practical concerns about your patches that they trigger my > e-mail filters, so I have to spend on them much more time than I would want. I've found that spamassassin does a good job of marking patches as non spam. Also, if you're using zmailer, vger seems to have some type of patch recognition system built in which might be worth co-opting. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
