From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "Rajat Jain" <rajat.noida.india@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>,
       "Daniel Rodrick" <daniel.rodrick@gmail.com>,
       kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>,
       "Linux Newbie" <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: after effects of a kernel API change
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:47:42 -0700
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	(Rajat Jain's message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:05:53 +0530")
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"Rajat Jain" <rajat.noida.india@gmail.com> writes:

>> >
>> > Is there any way volunteers like me can help in this exercise?
>>
>> See the /APIchanges in the Kernel Janitors TODO list
>> http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/Todo
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> This is regarding the link posted above.
>
> 1) How do I make sure if some one is NOT working on any of the
> mentioned bullet points? Who coordinates? On what mailing list?

Depends on the issue.  Release early and release often and there
won't be much duplicate work :)

> 2) Do any patches for the above Todo list have the chances of getting
> merged into the mainstream kernel? Who approves? I suppose the
> respective maintainer of the driver / subsystem getting affected?

Generally. Occasionally for small things other paths are available.

Eric
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