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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> > well, though.  One is the kind I'm bumping into right now, where
> > somebody legitimately needs to make small (almost trivial) changes
> > scattered all through the tree.
> 
> Yep. But such changes are rare. Or should be. 

Knowing that doesn't help me much, since I'm trying to fix up a global
namespace that touches everybody :-(.
 
> If I get patches for stuff that doesnt seem to have a maintainer I
> apply them.  On the odd occasion a scream is heard in the distance
> it means I now know there is an active maintainer.

All right then.  I'm going to send you a bunch of dead-symbol cleanup
patches.  I'll try to stay in the mainline code and out of the port
trees.  Would you please do me the kindness of telling me which ones
can go in and which ones you think have to go through maintainers?

You should have received one such patch already, fixes for two
documentation files.
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