Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 - 07:46:23 EST



* Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Peter Zijlstra writes:
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 09:17 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> >
> > > 1. Wrong mailing list; use linux-ide (@vger) instead.
> >
> > What, and keep all us other interested people in the dark?
>
> MAINTAINERS clearly lists linux-ide as the primary mailing list for
> all things IDE/ATA.
>
> The original report only went to LKML, thus it has a high chance of
> being missed or ignored by those most capable of dealing with it.

that is a fatal misunderstanding on your part. lkml is a perfectly fine
place to report Linux bugs, why should testers be aware of the zillions
of tiny, mostly irrelevant lists mentioned in the MAINTAINERS file?

Maintainers are required to read lkml for bugreports regarding their
subsystems - not the other way around. If a tester manages to Cc: a
maintainer (be that a person or a list alias) that's a bonus, but not a
requirement at all ...

Ingo
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