rusty you may want to review your rules before this gets in ;) the "Trivial Patch Monkey" is neither documented in MAINTAINERS nor was there a note in SubmittingPatches, i hope this helps further recognition and easier catch so let the monkey apply himself in re-transmission mode! please apply ma(ks|x(imilian)?) --- linux-2.6.0-test7/Documentation/SubmittingPatches 2003-10-08 21:24:00.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/Documentation/SubmittingPatches 2003-10-09 12:41:22.000000000 +0200 @@ -132,6 +132,21 @@ Even if the maintainer did not respond in step #4, make sure to ALWAYS copy the maintainer when you change their code. +For small patches you may want to CC Trivial Patch Monkey +trivial@rustcorp.com.au set up by Rusty Russel which collects "trivial" +patches. Trivial patches must qualify for one of the following rules: + Spelling fixes in documentation + Spelling fixes which could break grep(1). + Warning fixes (cluttering with useless warnings is bad) + Compilation fixes (only if they are actually correct) + Runtime fixes (only if they actually fix things) + Removing use of deprecated functions/macros (eg. check_region). + Contact detail and documentation fixes + Non-portable code replaced by portable code (even in arch-specific, + since people copy, as long as it's trivial) + Any fix by the author/maintainer of the file. (ie. patch monkey + in re-transmission mode) + 6) No MIME, no links, no compression, no attachments. Just plain text.