linux-kernel - Re: Should I really bother all maintainers with this?

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Date:	Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:05:11 +0200
From:	Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Should I really bother all maintainers with this?

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Francis Galiegue wrote:
>
>> >> This patch only fixes quite a common mistake in Documentation/, and if I
>> >> scripts/get_maintainer.pl on the patch (which is recommended), I potentially
>> >> mail thousands of people who probably have more useful/exciting stuff to do
>> >> anyway. So, I submit it as is.
>> >
>> > this kind of stuff usually goes through the trivial tree.  look at
>> > TRIVIAL PATCHES in the MAINTAINERS file.
>> > -mike
>> >
>>
>> Point taken... But the patch doesn't apply as is over trivial/master or
>> trivial/for-next, as two files don't seem to exist on either branch (trivial
>> being the git repository mentioned in MAINTAINERS):
>> Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt and Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt.
>
> That's not a problem, I pull Linus' tree into my tree when needed. Just
> resend the patch (based on Linus' tree) to trivial@...nel.org and I'll
> process it appropriately.
>

Ah well, I forgot to mention that this patch was done over Linus' tree
(specifically, commit c81eddb0e3728661d1585fbc564449c94165cc36).

I'll resend right back with Cc: <trivial@...nel.org>.

> Thanks,
> --
> Jiri Kosina
> SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
>

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