Re: [RFC][PATCH] unchecked request_region's in drivers/net

James A Sutherland
2001-12-28T20:48:30Z

On Friday 28 December 2001 6:48 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> > currently is, but add a PATCHES-TO file in each subdirectory that
> > states how to handle patches relating to that directory, and have
> > these files follow a strict format, possibly...
>
> Add the patches to to the maintainers as another field. If the patches
> go to someone who isnt claiming to be a maintainer something is wrong

Except it seems maintainers is, er, unmaintained... Dave's/my solution looks
good from this point of view, allowing others to "subscribe" to track patches
to subsystems they care about. As well as allowing Al to remain a "closet
maintainer", rather than putting him in maintainers :)

James.