Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support

[Ben Dooks]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:24:45PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:15:10AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 13:38 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 05:00:30AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > > > From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:49:12 +0100
> > > > 
> > > > > I can not keep up with the number of patches that need to be
> > > > > reviewed and ultimately merged.  I know this, and I freely admit it,
> > > > > and I have done so on many occasions.
> > > > 
> > > > Then split up the responsibilities to other people instead of being
> > > > the choke point.  Controlling everything isn't so important.
> > > 
> > > Don't you think that I've been trying to get other people to be more
> > > involved?
> > > 
> > > - I've been pushing people to send patches to the relevent mailing
> > >   list(s) and maintainer(s) for years.
> > > 
> > > - I've been pushing people to send their ARM patches to the ARM
> > >   mailing list rather than directly into the patch system for review
> > >   (it even has a comment telling people this) so that others can get
> > >   involved in reviewing them, and sharing that work load.
> > > 
> > > Do you think either have been anywhere near successful?
> > []
> > > I've been trying to get greater participation
> > > but it's just not happening.
> > 
> > I suggest you stop using subscriber-only mailing lists and
> > use linux-arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> This is main point here is to offload Russell.
> One way to offload Russell is to have competent people reviewing platform
> code for ARM. This is best done by other platform people.
> Me and you - we can helpt. But the people where we need higher
> involvement are already on the list.

Personally, I'm not on linux-arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and don't plan on
being there either. If people are too stupid to read the maintainers
entry and realise that linux-arm-kernel is moderated and they might
thus have to subscribe to post there then they can be safely ignored.

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Ben (ben@xxxxxxxxx, http://www.fluff.org/)

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