From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Rajat Jain <rajat.noida.india@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>,
Daniel Rodrick <daniel.rodrick@gmail.com>,
kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>,
Linux Newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: after effects of a kernel API change
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:47:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1mz4g7p41.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b115cb5f0701172135k411dca56u92101a929799548a@mail.gmail.com> (Rajat Jain's message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:05:53 +0530")
"Rajat Jain" <rajat.noida.india@gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> > Is there any way volunteers like me can help in this exercise?
>>
>> See the /APIchanges in the Kernel Janitors TODO list
>> http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/Todo
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> This is regarding the link posted above.
>
> 1) How do I make sure if some one is NOT working on any of the
> mentioned bullet points? Who coordinates? On what mailing list?
Depends on the issue. Release early and release often and there
won't be much duplicate work :)
> 2) Do any patches for the above Todo list have the chances of getting
> merged into the mainstream kernel? Who approves? I suppose the
> respective maintainer of the driver / subsystem getting affected?
Generally. Occasionally for small things other paths are available.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-18 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-18 4:15 after effects of a kernel API change Daniel Rodrick
2007-01-18 5:04 ` Greg KH
2007-01-18 5:10 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-01-18 5:35 ` Rajat Jain
2007-01-18 7:47 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2007-01-18 9:44 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
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