Re: [PATCH] TIPC: add Kconfig help text

[Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>]

That has also been fixed, but not pulled in yet. Same reason as above.
///jon

Jesper Juhl wrote:

> On 1/17/06, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
> > On 1/17/06, Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com> wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > I've already committed a patch similar to this in our GIT repo
> > > (http://tipc.cslab.ericsson.net), just haven't asked for it to be pulled
> > > yet since we have another fix for some namespace pullution in the
> > > pipeline. Thanks though!
> > >
> > >      
> > Good enough for me :-)
> >
> >    
>
> Let me just pick another little nit here.
>
> Your entries in the MAINTAINERS file for TIPC;
> Would it be too much to ask that you list the *correct* email
> addresses for people in there instead of the @nospam.ericsson.com
> obfuscated ones?
>
> As I see it, listing the obfuscated addresses buys you nothing, since
> you are using the real address to post to a public (and widely
> archived) mailing list anyway, and has a few real drawbacks:
>
> - some users (especially users who are not native english speakers)
> may not realize that the "nospam." bit should be taken out and thus
> you may miss emails.
>
> - it adds extra work (small, but still) on everyone who looks up the
> maintainer for TIPC to send you guys emails to parse the addr and
> realize the addr needs to be edited and then actually edit it instead
> of just cut'n'paste.
>
> - it's somewhat annoying.
>
>
> I even opted to send the patch to both the @nospam.ericsson.com and
> @ericsson.com addresses since I didn't know if "nospam." was to be
> taken out or if it was just some subdomain you used specifically for
> communication on public lists that you then did extra SPAM filtering
> on - there's no way to know.
> If you are worried about getting extra SPAM by being listed in
> MAINTAINERS, why don't you just create an extra email alias that you
> list in MAINTAINERS and use for LKML stuff - that alias you can then
> do extra filtering on, dump in a seperate mailbox/folder/whatever... I
> don't think you actually gain anything by your current scheeme.
>
> I'll stop ranting now ;)
>
> --
> Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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