Re: [RFA] Sparc/Linux fixes part 1

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>]

> On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 06:52:17PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
>  > On another topic, I have like 10 or so RFAs pending, and nobody
>  > provides any feedback.  Yet someone else submits a patch after all of
>  > mine and it gets an RFA quite quickly.  It's not like I'm submitting
>  > jumbo patches or anything, what gives?
> 
> Hm.  The sparc target is currently listed as maintainer-less.  I have a
> similar dilemma with the alpha target ... who do I ask approval from if
> I'm not doing the "considered obvious" stuff?

 From MAINTAINERS:

> All developers recognized by this file can make arbitrary changes to
> OBSOLETE targets.
> 
> All maintainers can test and thence approve non-trivial changes to
> ``maintenance only'' targets submitted by recognized developers.
> 
> All recognized developers can make mechanical changes (by virtue of
> the obvious fix rule) to ``maintenance only'' targets.  The change
> shall be sanity checked by compiling with one of the listed targets.

However, typically, a global write maintainer, or I end up going through 
the changes.

enjoy,
Andrew