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From: James A Sutherland <james@sutherland.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, rhw@MemAlpha.cx
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] unchecked request_region's in drivers/net
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:48:52 +0000
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On Friday 28 December 2001 6:48 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> > currently is, but add a PATCHES-TO file in each subdirectory that
> > states how to handle patches relating to that directory, and have
> > these files follow a strict format, possibly...
>
> Add the patches to to the maintainers as another field. If the patches
> go to someone who isnt claiming to be a maintainer something is wrong

Except it seems maintainers is, er, unmaintained... Dave's/my solution looks 
good from this point of view, allowing others to "subscribe" to track patches 
to subsystems they care about. As well as allowing Al to remain a "closet 
maintainer", rather than putting him in maintainers :)


James.
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