Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: use relevant mailing lists

["Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 27/07/07, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
>
> Add text on using relevant mailing lists.
>

I'd add a little bit to that - see below

> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS |   13 ++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-2623-rc1g2.orig/MAINTAINERS
> +++ linux-2623-rc1g2/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -23,15 +23,18 @@ trivial patch so apply some common sense
>  4.     When you are happy with a change make it generally available for
>         testing and await feedback.
>
> -5.     Make a patch available to the relevant maintainer in the list. Use
> -       'diff -u' to make the patch easy to merge. Be prepared to get your
> -       changes sent back with seemingly silly requests about formatting
> -       and variable names.  These aren't as silly as they seem. One
> -       job the maintainers (and especially Linus) do is to keep things
> +5.     Make a patch available to the relevant maintainer(s) and mailing
> +       list(s). Use 'diff -u' to make the patch easy to merge. Be prepared
> +       to get your changes sent back with seemingly silly requests about
> +       formatting and variable names.  These aren't as silly as they seem.
> +       One job the maintainers (and especially Linus) do is to keep things
>         looking the same. Sometimes this means that the clever hack in
>         your driver to get around a problem actually needs to become a
>         generalized kernel feature ready for next time.
>
> +       Use the relevant mailing list(s) -- don't just send everything to
> +       lkml (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org).

 +       Always including lkml in addition to more specific lists is usually OK.

> +
>         PLEASE check your patch with the automated style checker
>         (scripts/checkpatch.pl) to catch trival style violations.
>         See Documentation/CodingStyle for guidance here.



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