Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] DAC960: kmalloc->kzalloc/Casting cleanups

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 04:00:10 +0200 Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 09:46:30AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 15:17:25 +0200 Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > I'm not able to find the DAC960 block driver maintainer. If someones knows
> > > please reply :).
> > 
> > It's orphaned.  Andrew can decide to merge this, or one of the
> > storage or block maintainers could possibly do that.
> > or it could go thru KJ, but then Andrew may still end up
> > merging it.
> 
> Should Kernel janitors then care of cleaning orphaned files ?.

Kernel janitors could do that (IMO).  It's up to you where you want
to send the patch.

> If so, I should forward it to Andrew Morton without CCing LKML again, right ?

I would expect that Andrew has seen the patch.  Anyway, you should
always send the patch to a mailing list and usually to a specific
maintainer also (like Andrew or a subsystem maintainer or the KJ
maintainer).  [except for some security-related patches]

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~Randy