> 1. Most important thing of course, did we contact the correct subsystem > maintainers? > i. IDE/Blkvsc David Miller Libata - Jeff Garzik & linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx drivers/ide is obsolete and on its way out. drivers/ata replaced it as the old code couldn't really cope with things like SATA NCQ or hotplug. The new stuff can which is probably handy in a hypervisor. > ii. SCSI/Storvsc James Bottomley Yes & linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > iii. Network/Netvsc Stephen Hemminger > 2. What is the process to submit the code for review? See: Documentation/SubmittingPatches in your kernel tree That should answer the rest. If not then keep a tag on things that should have been in there but weren't and that can also get updated. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html