On 03/02/10 09:59, Michael Witten wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:06, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I recently read through Rusty Russell's >>> >>> Unreliable Guide To Hacking The Linux Kernel >>> >>> and made changes along the way. >>> >>> Though there are 25 patches in this series, most provide >>> extremely minor modifications. >> >> Nevertheless, you should have cc-ed Mr. Russell on these patches. >> Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > I dutifully sent the patches 2 days ago to both Mr. Russell and Jiri > Kosina <trivial@xxxxxxxxxx> with nary a response since then, and I > didn't want to explicitly bury either of them again in a deluge of 26 > emails. Jiri might merge them, but patches generally need to be sent to a mailing list for review, not just to a maintainer. > Moreover, I would still be waiting for their replies were it not for > the fact that I also sent the following email shortly after the > patches: > > On Mon, 2010-03-01 02:48:14 +0000 , Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I see that the Linux MAINTAINER's file lists >> >>> DOCUMENTATION >>> M: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> L: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> S: Maintained >>> F: Documentation/ >> >> Should I send my patches to that list and Randy? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Michael Witten > > I never received so much as a 'yes' or 'no' from either over the > course of more than a day and a half, and knowing how easily emails > and especially patches can get lost in the noise, I figured I wouldn't > waste anymore time. > > If Mr. Russell is interested, them I'm sure he's subscribed to this > list and he already has a copy of the emails otherwise (along with a > notification from both of us that these patches have been sent to the > linux-doc mailing list). I wouldn't bet on it. I'm subscribed to around 50 mailing lists. Rusty may or may not be on this particular mailing list. -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
