Trivial patches and lots of maintainers

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard mpg at elzevir.fr
Mon Dec 28 15:59:56 EST 2015


On 28/12/2015 20:42, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> wrote:
>> When submitting trivial patches such as fixing typos in comments,
>> should I always Cc all people suggested by get_maintainer.pl?
> Sending to everyone pointed by get_maintainer.pl is usually a good
> idea.
> 
Ok, I'll do that then.

>> What's the best usage here?
> I think that you can start in files from drivers/staging, as there is
> usually work to be done there.
> 
Yes, that's what I'm doing but in the process I often end up reading
other parts of the source (which I guess is one of the expected positive
side-effects), so sometimes I can notice minor things to fix outside
staging.

> Good luck!
> 
Thanks!

Manuel.



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