On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 05:49:15PM +0300, David K. Kahurani wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 02:02:28PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > ------------------- > > Note, ok, this is really going to be the final 5.7.y kernel release. I > > mean it this time.... > > ------------------- > > Hello, > > This is probably not very relevant but let me just bring this up here > since your manner of posting mail on the list seems to differ quite a > bit from what most people on the list are doing.
It's not all that relevant as what I am doing here is not what anyone else on this list is doing :) > From my understanding, an email regarding to a certain patch or kernel > issue should be sent to a list and not to a maintainer. This is > however not the habit that people are in, though but instead, most > people will send the email to the maintainers, then cc a few probably > random mailing lists. This leads to emails flooding on the mailing > list and consequently, beats the purpose of one ever having sent the > mail to a list because lists will get increasingly difficult to > follow. So is the complaint that these stable -rc emails are drowning out seeing other patches that are relevant? If so, there are some wonderfully helpfuly headers that I add to all of these emails so you can easily filter them away to /dev/null if you so desire. If not, then I don't understand the complaint. > Is it just me who has made this observation? From your mail, it > clearly looks and seems like you are following the above. Not > following the above could make it very hard for a new kernel developer > to pick up working on the kernel. Have you read the Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst file? If not, please start there, as trying to read the firehose that is lkml all at once is _not_ how anyone does kernel development. thanks, greg k-h
