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Subject: Re: How/when to send patches - (was  Re: [PATCH] one of $BIGNUM devfs races)
To: neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au (Neil Brown)
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 08:42:07 +0100 (BST)
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> So I thought I would try sending to Alan and Linus.  Then they
> appeared in an -ac patch, but not in a pre patch.
> 
> I thought that might be close enough, but if Alan doesn't plan to
> forward them the Linus, then it isn't.

I can forward fs/nfs stuff to Linus if you want me to add it to the stuff
I do forward, ditto md (non lvm) stuff. In many ways -ac is far enough, if
it gets to -ac it gets to most folks and its there for all the vendors

Alan