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PATCH In review Domen Puncer 2 participants 2 messages Jul 7, 2005 – Jul 11, 2005 Kernel janitors

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PATCH 1/1 mail per subsystem

Hi!

nacc noted on irc, that this is not in faq, but probably should be. Here's a compact version I came up with:

Comments? Better wordings?

faq-new renamed from faq-old +5 -0
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
 A: Mailing list: [email protected]
    If you feel confident enough, you can CC: someone from MAINTAINERS too.
 
+Q: I have lots of patches that do the same thing. Can I just send them in
+   one mail?
+A: No, but neither send them in lots of small mails. Try splitting them per
+   subsystem (drivers/net/, fs/ext3/...).
+
 Q: Where can I find janitors?
 A: On our mailing list and #kerneljanitor at irc.oftc.net
 

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Quoted 6 lines · Domen Puncer

Hi!

nacc noted on irc, that this is not in faq, but probably should be. Here's a compact version I came up with:

Comments? Better wordings?

Patch makes sense; here's one with one grammatical fix & a link to the conversation with David Miller on LKML.

Thanks,
Nish

faq.dev renamed from faq +7 -0
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ Q: Where should I send patches to?
 A: Mailing list: [email protected]
    If you feel confident enough, you can CC: someone from MAINTAINERS too.
 
+Q: I have lots of patches that do the same thing. Can I just send them in
+   one mail?
+A: No, but don't send them in lots of small mails either. Try splitting
+   them up per subsystem (drivers/net/, fs/ext3/...). See here:
+   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112105809816217&w=2
+   for details.
+
 Q: Where can I find janitors?
 A: On our mailing list and #kerneljanitor at irc.oftc.net
 

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