Re: [Updated]: How to become a kernel driver maintainer

Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-08T19:10:54Z

> > about the change to start discussion.
> >
> Perhaps add a bit of text here about integrating patches send to you,
> as maintainer of the driver, by random people.

it's not integrating.
It's reviewing and passing on for merge ;)
fundamental difference. You don't "own" the driver in the tree. You just
keep it nice and shiny and clean. Best done by blessing patches, and by
developing in "patches" not "new codebase". The entire "new codebase"
thinking is the problem with CVS-think. Think in patches (once merged),
not in code/tree.