tree 96b08a137a5b19d3223b44b434edcb069c5bb4e9 parent faf1668c954d24285d7b213cf1ff38fe93569f01 author Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 01 Aug 2005 12:34:48 -0700 committer Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 02 Aug 2005 09:14:00 -0700
[PATCH] plug MAN-PAGES maintainer in Documentation/SubmittingPatches 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Michael Kerrisk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -149,6 +149,11 @@ 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe bk-commits-head" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
