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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] plug MAN-PAGES maintainer in Documentation/SubmittingPatches
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 00:15:56 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050731071556.19102.2901.sendpatchset@sam.engr.sgi.com> (raw)

Improve the likelihood that someone submitting a patch will
notify the MAN-PAGES maintainer.

This is a follow-up to comments on the July 29 lkml email
thread: "Broke nice range for RLIMIT NICE"

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>

Index: 2.6.12-rc5-mm1/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
===================================================================
--- 2.6.12-rc5-mm1.orig/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ 2.6.12-rc5-mm1/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -161,6 +161,11 @@ USB, framebuffer devices, the VFS, the S
 MAINTAINERS file for a mailing list that relates specifically to
 your change.
 
+If changes affect userland-kernel interfaces, please send
+the MAN-PAGES maintainer (as listed in the MAINTAINERS file)
+a man-pages patch, or at least a notification of the change,
+so that some information makes its way into the manual pages.
+
 Even if the maintainer did not respond in step #4, make sure to ALWAYS
 copy the maintainer when you change their code.
 

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