Re: [PATCH net-next] Documentation: add networking/netdev-FAQ.txt
From: Rob Landley <hidden>
Date: 2013-08-05 02:34:11
On 07/31/2013 02:16:20 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
A collection of expectations and operational details about how networking development takes place in the context of the netdev mailing list.
http://vger.kernel.org has 149 mailing lists, and that's maybe half of the kernel lists out there. (The linux foundation's got a bunch, the device tree list just switched servers, etc.) Why is this list special?
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+++ b/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt@@ -0,0 +1,224 @@ + +Information you need to know about netdev +----------------------------------------- + +Q: What is netdev? + +A: It is a mailing list for all network related linux stuff. Thisincludes + anything found under net/ (i.e. core code like IPv6) and drivers/net + (i.e. hardware specific drivers) in the linux source tree.
I'm all for having this somewhere, but this is a silly place for it. Putting it in linux/Documentation means you'll frequently tell newbies "read the FAQ, except it's not on the web, we stuck it in a subdirectory of a sudirectory of the kernel source because that's the obvious place to stick the FAQ for a mailing list". Rob