Re: [PATCH] ia64: kernel: Few typos fixed in the file fsys.S

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu Mar 11 2021 - 01:31:12 EST


On 3/10/21 10:24 PM, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
> On 22:15 Wed 10 Mar 2021, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 3/10/21 10:10 PM, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
>>>
>>> Mundane spelling fixes.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> but no maintainer Cc:ed to pick it up...
>>
> I have seen "maintainer less" files and you have pointed out that too in the
> past...what do I do Randy??? Should run "git blame" to find out ,who touch the file and
> include those mail??? I don't think that would be good idea.
>
> Bemused!! Throw some light.

Well, we know that ia64 is orphaned, so you need to find someone
to merge the patch. Andrew Morton is usually a good bet. :)

or use 'git log' <filename> to see who has been merging patches
to that file.

>>> ---
>>>  arch/ia64/kernel/fsys.S | 4 ++--
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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~Randy