parallel port code

[Randy Dunlap]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:20:04 +0200 Javi Roman wrote:

> I've just seen the Zack Brown column (LinuxJournal July 2007) a
> reference telling about  the kernel parallel port code is now
> unmaintained. Please, can anybody explain me how a programmer can
> became a kernel maintainer?

I don't recall that we have a book or chapter on that, but maybe
we can list some pieces of it here (i.e., with some help, not me
alone).


You'll need to begin by being an active contributor in the area
that you'd like to maintain.

If there are other contributors but no maintainer, then you could
also collect patches from other people, review/comment on them,
merge them into your own subsystem repo/tree (e.g., git), and then
ask Andrew to include that subsystem's patches in his -mm patchset.

Once the subsystem patches have had exposure and testing in -mm,
you can ask Linus to pull the patches from your tree (if you are
using git) or you can ask Andrew to push patches to Linus.


In any case, begin by contributing, then act as a de facto
maintainer, and then you will probably be recognized as the
subsystem maintainer after a few kernel releases.


Also read files in the Documentation/ area of the kernel tree,
especially:  HOWTO & Submit*.

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~Randy
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