From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760222AbXGCPDI (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:03:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760512AbXGCPCm (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:02:42 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:49738 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760492AbXGCPCl (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:02:41 -0400 Subject: Re: How to handle patches that cross maintainers? From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: Kumar Gala Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Development , linuxppc-dev list , Paul Mackerras In-Reply-To: <4BEFAFC6-3346-4F29-B1C5-377952E3FBBF@kernel.crashing.org> References: <4BEFAFC6-3346-4F29-B1C5-377952E3FBBF@kernel.crashing.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:01:50 -0300 Message-Id: <1183474910.3926.134.camel@gaivota> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.0-5mdv2007.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Em Ter, 2007-07-03 às 04:01 -0500, Kumar Gala escreveu: > Andrew, > > I was hoping to get your input on how to handle patches that cross > maintainers. I've got a patch that is pretty PPC specific, but > happens to touch some drivers as well. > > Here's the diffstat to get a rough idea: > > arch/powerpc/kernel/io.c | 12 ++++++------ > arch/powerpc/mm/hash_native_64.c | 2 +- > arch/powerpc/mm/stab.c | 4 ++-- > drivers/ide/pci/scc_pata.c | 4 ++-- > drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/bt878.h | 5 ++--- > drivers/serial/cpm_uart/cpm_uart_core.c | 2 +- > include/asm-powerpc/system.h | 2 +- > 7 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) > > Now, I've had this issue before w/o any good sense on how to handle it. The better is to copy all of us and wait for some time to allow each maintainer to ack or comment the changeset, if needed. Please c/c me for any changes on /drivers/media stuff. Cheers, Mauro