From: Paulo Almeida <paulo.miguel.almeida.rodenas@gmail.com>
To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Can't seem to find a maintainer for init/* files
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 12:53:30 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0109F96E-4CDB-4CF6-B6CA-B92F8DD0EF4B@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191018223205.GC6978@kroah.com>
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> On 19/10/2019, at 11:32 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> Run scripts/get_maintainer.pl on any file and it will tell you where to
> send changes to:
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --file init/do_mounts.c
> Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk <mailto:viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>> (commit_signer:7/9=78%,authored:5/9=56%,added_lines:7/44=16%,removed_lines:27/32=84%)
> David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com <mailto:dhowells@redhat.com>> (commit_signer:3/9=33%,authored:2/9=22%,added_lines:5/44=11%,removed_lines:5/32=16%)
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org <mailto:akpm@linux-foundation.org>> (commit_signer:2/9=22%)
> Nikolaus Voss <nikolaus.voss@loewensteinmedical.de <mailto:nikolaus.voss@loewensteinmedical.de>> (commit_signer:1/9=11%,authored:1/9=11%,added_lines:31/44=70%)
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de <mailto:tglx@linutronix.de>> (commit_signer:1/9=11%,authored:1/9=11%)
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org <mailto:linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> (open list)
>
> But don't do janitorial cleanup on those files as a "first task". That
> is what the drivers/staging/ directory is for, don't mess with core
> kernel files unless you have experience doing kernel changes, as the
> learning curve needs to be gotten over first.
Hi Greg,
I appreciate your reply and I will take your piece of advice on what to do as the first task.
Best regards,
Paulo Almeida
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-18 21:33 Can't seem to find a maintainer for init/* files Paulo Almeida
2019-10-18 21:38 ` Paulo Almeida
2019-10-18 22:32 ` Greg KH
2019-10-18 23:53 ` Paulo Almeida [this message]
2019-10-18 23:25 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-10-21 12:37 ` Paulo Miguel Almeida
2019-10-21 13:45 ` Valdis Klētnieks
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