David Li schrieb: > The requirement that I am not about sure about is if the kernel > janitor needs to be able to build, configure and boot up a customized > kernel in order to test his patches. It seems to me a must. What's the > common practice in this for everyone? Are there any specific > requirements on HW? Can any experienced janitors share some thoughts? The answer depends on the situation. for some patches you need special hardware so it should be the responsibility of the current subsystem maintainer to make sure it works on it. As janitor you have to compile-test the fixes at least and you should follow the thread that means if the maintainer says "you patch is bad because the documentation is faulty not the program." you should fix the documentation in the next step not leave it as it is. re, wh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
