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Remove mentions of the Trivial Patch Monkey

RFC PATCH In review Miguel Ojeda 4 participants 4 messages Dec 14, 2021 – Dec 16, 2021

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RFC PATCH 1/1 Remove mentions of the Trivial Patch Monkey

Apparently, it was decided that [email protected] is no longer used.

---
Sending this before we forget about it...

We may want to keep the definition of "trivial patch" somewhere else.

 Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 19 -------------------
 MAINTAINERS                                  |  6 ------
 2 files changed, 25 deletions(-)
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst +0 -19
index 6b3aaed66fba..31ea120ce531 100644
@@ -271,25 +271,6 @@ least a notification of the change, so that some information makes its way
 into the manual pages.  User-space API changes should also be copied to
 [email protected].
 
-For small patches you may want to CC the Trivial Patch Monkey
[email protected] which collects "trivial" patches. Have a look
-into the MAINTAINERS file for its current manager.
-
-Trivial patches must qualify for one of the following rules:
-
-- Spelling fixes in documentation
-- Spelling fixes for errors which could break :manpage:`grep(1)`
-- Warning fixes (cluttering with useless warnings is bad)
-- Compilation fixes (only if they are actually correct)
-- Runtime fixes (only if they actually fix things)
-- Removing use of deprecated functions/macros
-- Contact detail and documentation fixes
-- Non-portable code replaced by portable code (even in arch-specific,
-  since people copy, as long as it's trivial)
-- Any fix by the author/maintainer of the file (ie. patch monkey
-  in re-transmission mode)
-
-
 
 No MIME, no links, no compression, no attachments.  Just plain text
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
MAINTAINERS +0 -6
index 13f9a84a617e..c88bac733e9e 100644
@@ -19334,12 +19334,6 @@ W:	https://github.com/srcres258/linux-doc
 T:	git git://github.com/srcres258/linux-doc.git doc-zh-tw
 F:	Documentation/translations/zh_TW/
 
-TRIVIAL PATCHES
-M:	Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
-S:	Maintained
-T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial.git
-K:	^Subject:.*(?i)trivial
-
 TTY LAYER
 M:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
 M:	Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Signature · 1 line
2.34.0
reviewer Acked-by on v1 1/1
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Quoted 7 lines · Miguel Ojeda

Apparently, it was decided that [email protected] is no longer used.

Cc akpm

Thanks.

Quoted 57 lines

---
Sending this before we forget about it...

We may want to keep the definition of "trivial patch" somewhere else.

 Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 19 -------------------
 MAINTAINERS                                  |  6 ------
 2 files changed, 25 deletions(-)
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst +0 -19
index 6b3aaed66fba..31ea120ce531 100644
@@ -271,25 +271,6 @@ least a notification of the change, so that some information makes its way
 into the manual pages.  User-space API changes should also be copied to
 [email protected].
 
-For small patches you may want to CC the Trivial Patch Monkey
[email protected] which collects "trivial" patches. Have a look
-into the MAINTAINERS file for its current manager.
-
-Trivial patches must qualify for one of the following rules:
-
-- Spelling fixes in documentation
-- Spelling fixes for errors which could break :manpage:`grep(1)`
-- Warning fixes (cluttering with useless warnings is bad)
-- Compilation fixes (only if they are actually correct)
-- Runtime fixes (only if they actually fix things)
-- Removing use of deprecated functions/macros
-- Contact detail and documentation fixes
-- Non-portable code replaced by portable code (even in arch-specific,
-  since people copy, as long as it's trivial)
-- Any fix by the author/maintainer of the file (ie. patch monkey
-  in re-transmission mode)
-
-
 
 No MIME, no links, no compression, no attachments.  Just plain text
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
MAINTAINERS +0 -6
index 13f9a84a617e..c88bac733e9e 100644
@@ -19334,12 +19334,6 @@ W:	https://github.com/srcres258/linux-doc
 T:	git git://github.com/srcres258/linux-doc.git doc-zh-tw
 F:	Documentation/translations/zh_TW/
 
-TRIVIAL PATCHES
-M:	Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
-S:	Maintained
-T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial.git
-K:	^Subject:.*(?i)trivial
-
 TTY LAYER
 M:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
 M:	Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Signature · 3 lines
~Randy
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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In reply to Miguel Ojeda
Quoted 7 lines · Miguel Ojeda

Apparently, it was decided that [email protected] is no longer used.

Quoted 8 lines

---
Sending this before we forget about it...

We may want to keep the definition of "trivial patch" somewhere else.

 Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 19 -------------------
 MAINTAINERS                                  |  6 ------
 2 files changed, 25 deletions(-)

It looks like the last pull from the trivial tree was bbf625990371 in October 2020 so yes, this looks like a patch whose time has come. Applied, thanks.

jon