From: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell•com>
Cc: Narendra K <Narendra_K@dell•com>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger•kernel.org,
linux-pci@vger•kernel.org, charles_rose@dell•com,
jordan_hargrave@dell•com, vijay_nijhawan@dell•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] Export SMBIOS provided firmware instance and label to sysfs
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:20:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100726182019.GA5144@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100723145809.GA7629@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com>
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:58:09AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 06:55:57AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 08:34:56AM -0500, Narendra K wrote:
> > > --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> > > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> > > @@ -179,3 +179,30 @@ Contact: linux-pci@vger•kernel.org
> > > Description:
> > > This symbolic link points to the PCI hotplug controller driver
> > > module that manages the hotplug slot.
> > > +
> > > +What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../label
> > > +Date: July 2010
> > > +Contact: linux-bugs@dell•com
> >
> > that's not your email address. Please don't hide behind some random
> > address, Linux is about contacting developers directly were ever
> > possible.
>
> That's actually the public email address for the whole Linux
> engineering team (including engineers and managers) at Dell, of which
> Narendra is a part. It's the address we publish for people to include
> on the cc: list of bugzilla issues on the kernel.org, Novell, and Red
> Hat bugzillas. This ensures someone on the team will see bug reports
> or patches and act accordingly, likely Narendra, but could be anyone
> in the future once Narendra is promoted or changes responsibilities
> (or even employers).
Ok, I don't really like it, but if that's what Dell wants to do, I guess
it's acceptable.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-26 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-07-23 13:34 ` [PATCH V3] Export SMBIOS provided firmware instance and label to sysfs Narendra K
2010-07-23 13:55 ` Greg KH
2010-07-23 14:58 ` Matt Domsch
2010-07-26 18:20 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-07-22 18:44 Narendra K
2010-07-22 18:56 ` Greg KH
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