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.
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401
reply other threads:[~2005-07-31 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20050731071556.19102.2901.sendpatchset@sam.engr.sgi.com \
--to=pj@sgi.com \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mtk-manpages@gmx.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
Powered by JetHome