[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 <[email protected]>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Paul Jackson 2005-07-31 22:34:48 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 1caf1f0f18

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@ -149,6 +149,11 @@ USB, framebuffer devices, the VFS, the SCSI subsystem, etc. See the
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.