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Authored by Paul Jackson
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent faf1668c95
Exists in master and in 7 other branches imx_3.0.35_4.1.0, imx_3.10.17_1.0.1_ga, imx_3.10.53_1.1.0_ga, imx_3.14.28_1.0.0_ga, smarc-imx_3.10.53_1.1.0_ga, smarc-imx_3.14.28_1.0.0_ga, smarc-l5.0.0_1.0.0-ga

[PATCH] plug MAN-PAGES maintainer in Documentation/SubmittingPatches 

Improve the likelihood that someone submitting a patch will notify the
MAN-PAGES maintainer.

This is a follow-up to comments on the July 29 lkml email thread: "Broke nice
range for RLIMIT NICE"

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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149 149 MAINTAINERS file for a mailing list that relates specifically to
150 150 your change.
151 151  
  152 +If changes affect userland-kernel interfaces, please send
  153 +the MAN-PAGES maintainer (as listed in the MAINTAINERS file)
  154 +a man-pages patch, or at least a notification of the change,
  155 +so that some information makes its way into the manual pages.
  156 +
152 157 Even if the maintainer did not respond in step #4, make sure to ALWAYS
153 158 copy the maintainer when you change their code.
154 159