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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 11:37:22 +0000
Subject: Re: Simple question on the Kernel Janitors project.
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 11:55:27AM +0100, Bas Peters wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I have  a very simple question: Why should I CC my patches to Kernel Janitors?

It's maybe a good idea to do it for the first patch if you are not sure
it's correct.  Julia and I do it because otherwise we were fixing the
same problems and maintainers were getting annoyed at the duplicates.

> Isn't it the responsibility of the maintainer to correct and merge
> patches?

To review and merge patches, yes.

> If so, what
> value does it add to CC the KJML as well? Do you maintain another
> branch that's merged
> into the kernel at every release?

No.

regards,
dan carpenter