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| author | Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> | 2005-07-31 22:34:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-08-01 19:14:00 -0700 |
| commit | 1caf1f0f187d99eb898bdc216de5a761740fe814 (patch) | |
| tree | 96b08a137a5b19d3223b44b434edcb069c5bb4e9 /Documentation | |
| parent | faf1668c954d24285d7b213cf1ff38fe93569f01 (diff) | |
| download | linux-1caf1f0f187d99eb898bdc216de5a761740fe814.tar.bz2 | |
[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 <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 6761a7b241a5..7f43b040311e 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -149,6 +149,11 @@ USB, framebuffer devices, the VFS, the SCSI subsystem, etc. See the 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. |