Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Thursday 11 June 2009 18:08:50 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:53:00AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 16:39 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:15:10AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > I suggest you stop using subscriber-only mailing lists and
> > > > use linux-arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > It's difficult to see how that helps, given that these lists have
> > > 1800+ subscribers already on them.  If 1800 subscribers can't do it,
> > > are you expecting (maybe) another 100 to magically provide the answer?
> > 
> > There aren't large numbers of ARM posters.
> > 
> > You've simply put up an unnecessary roadblock to
> > getting patches for review.
> 
> I simply disagree with your assessment of the situation.  Yes, there are
> a few people who refuse to subscribe to such lists, but I maintain that's
> a fairly small proportion.
> 
> I'd also point out that most of the people in this thread aren't
> subscribed to this list, yet they're posting freely to it.  Some of the
> people posting to it will get a moderation message for a couple of times
> and then no more.  As I've said in the past, unlike most subscriber only

Interesting.

Here is the typical moderation message I was getting:

On Tuesday 17 February 2009 14:08:44 linux-arm-kernel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Your request to the Linux-arm-kernel mailing list
> 
>     Posting of your message titled "Re: [PATCH 3/3 v3] AT91:
> initialize Compact Flash on AT91SAM9263 cpu"
> 
> has been rejected by the list moderator.  The moderator gave the
> following reason for rejecting your request:
> 
> "No reason given"
> 
> Any questions or comments should be directed to the list administrator
> at:
> 
>     linux-arm-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"No reason given" part was just lovely..

After getting a couple of such messages I decided to stay as far away from
linux-arm-kernel list as possible..

Before interacting with linux-arm-kernel list I really thought that people
exaggerated the issue and that their complains were unfounded..
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