Maintainers And Source Submission Procedures In order to keep things easy for the maintainers please try to follow the guidelines given. Not all of these guidelines matter for every trivial patch so apply some common sense. 1. Always _test_ your changes however small on at least 4 or 5 people, preferably many more. 2. Try and release a few ALPHA test versions to the net. Announce them onto the kernel channel and await results. This is especially important for device drivers because often thats the only way you will find things like the fact version 3 firmware needs a magic fix you didn't know about, or some clown changed the chips on a board and not its name (Don't laugh look at the SMC etherpower for that). 3. Make sure your changes compile correctly in multiple configurations. 4. When you are happy with a change make it generally available for testing and await feedback. 5. Make a patch available to the relevant maintainer in the list. Use 'diff -u' to make the patch easy to merge. Be prepared to get your changes sent back with seemingly silly requests about formatting and variable names. These aren't as silly as they seem, one job the maintainers (and especially Linus) do is to keep things looking the same. Sometimes this means that the clever hack in your driver to get around a problem actual needs to become a generalised kernel feature ready for next time. PLEASE try and include any credit lines you want added with the patch. It avoids people being missed off by mistake and makes it easier to know who wants adding and who doesn't. PLEASE Document known bugs. If it doesn't work for everything or does something very odd once a month document it. 6. Make sure you have the right to send any changes you make. If you do changes at work you may find your employer owns the patch not you. 7. Happy hacking [This file is new: I've just put the existing network contacts in, other people please add yourselves] -- AC ----------------------------------- Maintainers List (try to look for most precise areas first) P: Person M: Mail patches to L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area W: Web-page with status/info S: Status Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this (wildly improbable). Maintained: Someone actually looks after it. Odd Fixes: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do much other than throw the odd patch in. See below.. Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the role as you write your new code]. Obsolete: Ex code. Something tagged obsolete generally means its been replaced by a better system and you should be using that. 3C501 NETWORK DRIVER P: Alan Cox M: net-patches@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained ETHEREXPRESS NETWORK DRIVER P: Philip Blundell M: pjb27@cam.ac.uk L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained 3C505 NETWORK DRIVER P: Philip Blundell M: phil@tazenda.demon.co.uk L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained DIGI RIGHTSWITCH NETWORK DRIVER P: Rick Richardson M: rick@dgii.com L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu W: http://www.dgii.com/linux/ S: Maintained APM DRIVER P: Rik Faith & Stephen Rothwell M: faith@cs.unc.edu, Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au L: linux-laptop@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained APPLETALK NETWORK LAYER P: Alan Cox & University Of Michigan M: net-patches@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Cc: netatalk@umich.edu L: [Someone fill in the netatalk list here] S: Maintained AX.25 NETWORK LAYER P: Jon Naylor M: jsn@cs.nott.ac.uk L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained BUSLOGIC SCSI DRIVER P: Leonard N. Zubkoff M: Leonard N. Zubkoff <lnz@dandelion.com> L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained CYCLADES ASYNC MUX DRIVER P: Marcio Saito M: Marcio Saito <marcio@cyclades.com> W: http://www.cyclades.com/ S: Supported EATA ISA/EISA SCSI DRIVER P: Dario Ballabio M: dario@milano.europe.dg.com L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained U14-34F SCSI DRIVER P: Dario Ballabio M: dario@milano.europe.dg.com L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained EATA-DMA SCSI DRIVER P: Michael Neuffer M: mike@i-Connect.Net L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained EATA-PIO SCSI DRIVER P: Michael Neuffer M: mike@i-Connect.Net L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained FRAME RELAY DLCI/FRAD (Sangoma drivers too) P: Mike McLagan M: mike.mclagan@linux.org L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained FUTURE DOMAIN TMC-16x0 SCSI DRIVER (16-bit) P: Rik Faith M: faith@cs.unc.edu L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu S: Odd fixes (e.g., new signatures) SCSI TAPE DRIVER P: Kai Mdkisara M: Kai.Makisara@metla.fi L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained FTAPE/QIC-117: P: Kai Harrekilde-Petersen M: khp@@dolphinics.no L: linux-tape@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained IPX NETWORK LAYER P: Alan Cox [for the moment] M: net-patches@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk L: linux-ipx@vger.rutgers.edu [will change] S: Maintained IDE DRIVER [GENERAL] P: Mark Lord M: mlord@pobox.com L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained ISDN SUBSYSTEM P: Fritz Elfert M: fritz@wuemaus.franken.de L: isdn4linux@hub-wue.franken.de S: Maintained MODULE SUPPORT [GENERAL], KERNELD P: Bjorn Ekwall M: bj0rn@blox.se W: http://www.pi.se/blox/modules/ L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained ARPD SUPPORT P: Jonathan Layes M: layes@loran.com L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained NCP FILESYSTEM: P: Volker Lendecke M: lendecke@namu01.gwdg.de L: linware@sh.cvut.cz S: Maintained NETROM NETWORK LAYER P: Jon Naylor M: jsn@cs.nott.ac.uk L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained NETWORKING [GENERAL]: P: Alan Cox M: net-patches@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu S: Odd Fixes <-> Maintained subject to workloads PPP PROTOCOL DRIVERS AND COMPRESSORS P: Al Longyear M: longyear@netcom.com, Cc: longyear@sii.com L: linux-ppp@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained STARMODE RADIO IP (STRIP) PROTOCOL DRIVER P: Stuart Cheshire M: cheshire@cs.stanford.edu W: http://mosquitonet.Stanford.EDU/strip.html S: Maintained SMB FILESYSTEM: P: Volker Lendecke M: lendecke@namu01.gwdg.de L: samba@listproc.anu.edu.au S: Odd Fixes SMP: (except SPARC) P: Alan Cox M: smp-patches@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk L: linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained SPARC: P: David S. Miller M: davem@caip.rutgers.edu L: sparclinux@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained SVGA HANDLING: P: Martin Mares M: mj@k332.feld.cvut.cz L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained DIGIBOARD DRIVER: P: Christoph Lameter M: clameter@fuller.edu L: digiboard@list.fuller.edu S: Maintained MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES [GENERAL] P: Alessandro Rubini M: rubini@ipvvis.unipv.it L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained MENUCONFIG: P: William Roadcap M: roadcapw@cfw.com L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained REST: P: Linus Torvalds S: Buried alive in email