From: Paul Jackson Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 05:34:48 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] plug MAN-PAGES maintainer in Documentation/SubmittingPatches X-Git-Tag: v2.6.13-rc5~24 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1caf1f0f187d99eb898bdc216de5a761740fe814;p=linux.git [PATCH] plug MAN-PAGES maintainer in Documentation/SubmittingPatches Improve the likelihood that someone submitting a patch will notify the MAN-PAGES maintainer. This is a follow-up to comments on the July 29 lkml email thread: "Broke nice range for RLIMIT NICE" Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson Cc: "Michael Kerrisk" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 6761a7b241a5..7f43b040311e 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -149,6 +149,11 @@ USB, framebuffer devices, the VFS, the SCSI subsystem, etc. See the MAINTAINERS file for a mailing list that relates specifically to your change. +If changes affect userland-kernel interfaces, please send +the MAN-PAGES maintainer (as listed in the MAINTAINERS file) +a man-pages patch, or at least a notification of the change, +so that some information makes its way into the manual pages. + Even if the maintainer did not respond in step #4, make sure to ALWAYS copy the maintainer when you change their code.