Re: Should I really bother all maintainers with this?

[Jiri Kosina]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Francis Galiegue wrote:

> >> This patch only fixes quite a common mistake in Documentation/, and if I
> >> scripts/get_maintainer.pl on the patch (which is recommended), I potentially
> >> mail thousands of people who probably have more useful/exciting stuff to do
> >> anyway. So, I submit it as is.
> >
> > this kind of stuff usually goes through the trivial tree.  look at
> > TRIVIAL PATCHES in the MAINTAINERS file.
> > -mike
> >
> 
> Point taken... But the patch doesn't apply as is over trivial/master or
> trivial/for-next, as two files don't seem to exist on either branch (trivial
> being the git repository mentioned in MAINTAINERS):
> Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt and Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt.

That's not a problem, I pull Linus' tree into my tree when needed. Just 
resend the patch (based on Linus' tree) to trivial@xxxxxxxxxx and I'll 
process it appropriately.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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