From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:21:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:21:07 -0500 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:65262 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:20:53 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: <20011114135540.A513@markcomp.blaydon.hymers.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20011114135540.A513@markcomp.blaydon.hymers.org.uk> <20011114011018.A981@markcomp.blaydon.hymers.org.uk> To: Mark Hymers Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , chaffee@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: MODULE_LICENSE tags for nls Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:20:46 +0000 Message-ID: <25977.1005747646@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org markh@linuxfromscratch.org said: > By the way, should patches sent to LKML and the (probable) maintainer > be CC'd to Linus and Alan? If the code you're patching is actively maintained, then no - don't Cc Linus and Alan on the first attempt. This gives the maintainer a chance to provide a better patch, argue that no patch is required, or merge it with other changes which are pending. If the maintainer ignores you and you have to resend your patch, include Linus and/or Alan on the second (and subsequent) attempts. For code which isn't actively maintained, it's more acceptable to include Linus and/or Alan on the first attempt. -- dwmw2