From: Paul Jackson 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 Cc: "Michael Kerrisk" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN Documentation/SubmittingPatches~maintainers-record-man-pages-fix Documentation/SubmittingPatches --- devel/Documentation/SubmittingPatches~maintainers-record-man-pages-fix 2005-07-31 00:47:15.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/Documentation/SubmittingPatches 2005-07-31 00:47:15.000000000 -0700 @@ -149,6 +149,11 @@ USB, framebuffer devices, the VFS, the S MAINTAINERS file for a mailing list that relates specifically to your change. +If changes affect userland-kernel interfaces, please send +the MAN-PAGES maintainer (as listed in the MAINTAINERS file) +a man-pages patch, or at least a notification of the change, +so that some information makes its way into the manual pages. + Even if the maintainer did not respond in step #4, make sure to ALWAYS copy the maintainer when you change their code. _