On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:05:30PM -0500, Jaime Arrocha wrote: > Good day, > > The TODO document has the addresses of where to send a patch, but if > you run get_maintainer.pl it gives me a different person to address > it, gregkh for example. if you don't cc: me, the patch will not get merged, it's that simple :) > I have sent a patch to the persons on the TODO list, should I still > copy to the maintainer in charge too? CC maybe? Yes, and the mailing list as well please. Trust get_maintainer.pl, it works properly. > Another question, apart from the /drivers/staging and bugtracker, is > there some where else to look for bug info? The mailing list? I just > want to get the complete picture. bugzilla.kernel.org doesn't show much of anything for staging drivers, what specifically are you looking for? > Last question, I understand that if there is a bug, most of the time > they tell you to try to reproduce it on the latest kernel. If it > doesn't occur then everything is good and I should look for another > one. But who is in charge of porting a bug fix like these to old > kernels? How can I help? Or I, as a newbie, should focus more on the > /drivers/staging and bugtracker? Read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how patches get backported to older stable kernel releases. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
