Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sun, 31 Jul 2005 00:15:56 -0700 (PDT) | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | [PATCH] plug MAN-PAGES maintainer in Documentation/SubmittingPatches |
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Improve the likelihood that someone submitting a patch will notify the MAN-PAGES maintainer.
This is a follow-up to comments on the July 29 lkml email thread: "Broke nice range for RLIMIT NICE"
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Index: 2.6.12-rc5-mm1/Documentation/SubmittingPatches =================================================================== --- 2.6.12-rc5-mm1.orig/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ 2.6.12-rc5-mm1/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -161,6 +161,11 @@ USB, framebuffer devices, the VFS, the S MAINTAINERS file for a mailing list that relates specifically to your change. +If changes affect userland-kernel interfaces, please send +the MAN-PAGES maintainer (as listed in the MAINTAINERS file) +a man-pages patch, or at least a notification of the change, +so that some information makes its way into the manual pages. + Even if the maintainer did not respond in step #4, make sure to ALWAYS copy the maintainer when you change their code. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 - 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/
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