Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935775AbXHOTxG (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:53:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758898AbXHOTww (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:52:52 -0400 Received: from smtp3.hushmail.com ([65.39.178.135]:60821 "EHLO smtp3.hushmail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758523AbXHOTwv (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:52:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:52:42 -0400 To: Cc: , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 4 of 5 ] /drivers/char/rio ioremap balancing/ returncode check Reply-to: postfail@hushmail.com From: "Scott Thompson" Content-type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-Id: <20070815195248.4A593C3821@mailserver10.hushmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1147 Lines: 32 On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:38:23 -0400 Jiri Slaby wrote: >Ok. I was just curious, why did you CC drm people for char drivers >changes. > >BTW. is there anybody on janitors list, who collects all those >patches and >forwards them upstream? > The "MAINTAINERS" list claims that there are "several" maintainers for the kernel-janitors submitted patches and the readme on kerneljanitors.org (http://www.kerneljanitors.org/README) lists a few folks. Copying the originating maintainer/list is recommended in one of the kerneljanitor faqs. Some groups seem more receptive to these kind of fixes than others, though they may just be more active maintainers. I don't know if anyone does or doesn't roll these up collectively, maybe the list can advise... --------------------------------------- Scott Thompson / postfail@hushmail.com --------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/