	List of maintainers and how to submit kernel changes

Please try to follow the guidelines below.  This will make things
easier on the maintainers.  Not all of these guidelines matter for every
trivial patch so apply some common sense.

1.	Always _test_ your changes, however small, on at least 4 or
	5 people, preferably many more.

2.	Try to release a few ALPHA test versions to the net. Announce
	them onto the kernel channel and await results. This is especially
	important for device drivers, because often that's the only way
	you will find things like the fact version 3 firmware needs
	a magic fix you didn't know about, or some clown changed the
	chips on a board and not its name.  (Don't laugh!  Look at the
	SMC etherpower for that.)

3.	Make sure your changes compile correctly in multiple
	configurations.

4.	When you are happy with a change make it generally available for
	testing and await feedback.

5.	Make a patch available to the relevant maintainer in the list. Use
	'diff -u' to make the patch easy to merge. Be prepared to get your
	changes sent back with seemingly silly requests about formatting
	and variable names.  These aren't as silly as they seem. One
	job the maintainers (and especially Linus) do is to keep things
	looking the same. Sometimes this means that the clever hack in
	your driver to get around a problem actual needs to become a
	generalised kernel feature ready for next time.

	PLEASE try to include any credit lines you want added with the
	patch. It avoids people being missed off by mistake and makes
	it easier to know who wants adding and who doesn't.

	PLEASE document known bugs. If it doesn't work for everything
	or does something very odd once a month document it.

6.	Make sure you have the right to send any changes you make. If you
	do changes at work you may find your employer owns the patch
	not you.

7.	Happy hacking.


[This file is new: I've just put the existing network contacts in, other
 people please add yourselves] -- AC

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Maintainers List (try to look for most precise areas first)

P: Person
M: Mail patches to
L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area
W: Web-page with status/info
S: Status, one of the following:

	Supported:	Someone is actually paid to look after this (wildly
			improbable).
	Maintained:	Someone actually looks after it.
	Odd Fixes:	It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
			much other than throw the odd patch in. See below..
	Orphan:		No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the 
			role as you write your new code].
	Obsolete:	Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means
			it has been replaced by a better system and you
			should be using that.

EXT2 FILE SYSTEM
P:	Remy Card
M:	Remy.Card@linux.org
L:	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

3C501 NETWORK DRIVER
P:	Alan Cox
M:	net-patches@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
L:	linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

8390 NETWORK DRIVERS [WD80x3/SMC-ELITE, SMC-ULTRA, NE2000, 3C503, etc.]
P:	Paul Gortmaker
M	gpg109@rsphy1.anu.edu.au
L:	linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

ETHEREXPRESS-16 NETWORK DRIVER
P:	Philip Blundell
M:	pjb27@cam.ac.uk
L:	linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

3C505 NETWORK DRIVER
P:	Philip Blundell
M:	phil@tazenda.demon.co.uk
L:	linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

DIGI RIGHTSWITCH NETWORK DRIVER
P:	Rick Richardson
M:	rick@dgii.com
L:	linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
W:	http://www.dgii.com/linux/
S:	Maintained

APM DRIVER
P:      Rik Faith & Stephen Rothwell
M:      faith@cs.unc.edu, Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au
L:      linux-laptop@vger.rutgers.edu
S:      Maintained

APPLETALK NETWORK LAYER
P:	Alan Cox & University Of Michigan
M:	net-patches@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Cc: netatalk@umich.edu
L:	[Someone fill in the netatalk list here]
S:	Maintained

AX.25 NETWORK LAYER
P:	Jon Naylor
M:	jsn@cs.nott.ac.uk
L:	linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

BUSLOGIC SCSI DRIVER
P:	Leonard N. Zubkoff
M:	Leonard N. Zubkoff <lnz@dandelion.com>
L:	linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

CYCLADES ASYNC MUX DRIVER
P:	Marcio Saito
M:	Marcio Saito <marcio@cyclades.com>
W:	http://www.cyclades.com/
S:	Supported

EATA ISA/EISA SCSI DRIVER
P:	Dario Ballabio
M:	dario@milano.europe.dg.com
L:	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

U14-34F SCSI DRIVER
P:	Dario Ballabio
M:	dario@milano.europe.dg.com
L:	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

EATA-DMA SCSI DRIVER
P:	Michael Neuffer
M:	mike@i-Connect.Net
L:	linux-eata@i-connect.net, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

EATA-PIO SCSI DRIVER
P:	Michael Neuffer
M:	mike@i-Connect.Net
L:	linux-eata@i-connect.net, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

FRAME RELAY DLCI/FRAD (Sangoma drivers too)
P:	Mike McLagan
M:	mike.mclagan@linux.org
L:	linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

FUTURE DOMAIN TMC-16x0 SCSI DRIVER (16-bit)
P:      Rik Faith
M:      faith@cs.unc.edu
L:      linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
S:      Odd fixes (e.g., new signatures)

SCSI TAPE DRIVER
P:	Kai Mäkisara
M:	Kai.Makisara@metla.fi
L:	linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

FTAPE/QIC-117:
P:	Kai Harrekilde-Petersen
M:	khp@dolphinics.no
W:	http://www.dolphinics.no/~khp/ftape.html
L:	linux-tape@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

IPX NETWORK LAYER
P:	Alan Cox [for the moment]
M:	net-patches@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
L:	linux-ipx@vger.rutgers.edu [will change]
S:	Maintained

IDE DRIVER [GENERAL]
P:	Mark Lord
M:	mlord@pobox.com
L:	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

ISDN SUBSYSTEM
P:	Fritz Elfert
M:	fritz@wuemaus.franken.de
L:	isdn4linux@hub-wue.franken.de
S:	Maintained

MODULE SUPPORT [GENERAL], KERNELD
P:	Bjorn Ekwall
M:	bj0rn@blox.se
W:	http://www.pi.se/blox/modules/
L:	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

ARPD SUPPORT
P:	Jonathan Layes
M:	layes@loran.com
L:	linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

NCP FILESYSTEM:
P:	Volker Lendecke
M:	lendecke@namu01.Num.Math.Uni-Goettingen.de
L:	linware@sh.cvut.cz
S:	Maintained

NETROM NETWORK LAYER
P:	Jon Naylor
M:	jsn@cs.nott.ac.uk
L:	linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

NETWORKING [GENERAL]:
P:	Alan Cox
M:	net-patches@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
L:	linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Odd Fixes <-> Maintained subject to workloads

PPP PROTOCOL DRIVERS AND COMPRESSORS
P:	Al Longyear
M:	longyear@netcom.com, Cc: longyear@sii.com
L:	linux-ppp@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

REAL TIME CLOCK DRIVER
P:	Paul Gortmaker
M	gpg109@rsphy1.anu.edu.au
L:	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

STARMODE RADIO IP (STRIP) PROTOCOL DRIVER
P:     Stuart Cheshire
M:     cheshire@cs.stanford.edu
W:     http://mosquitonet.Stanford.EDU/strip.html
S:     Maintained

SMB FILESYSTEM:
P:	Volker Lendecke
M:	lendecke@namu01.Num.Math.Uni-Goettingen.de
L:	samba@listproc.anu.edu.au
S:	Odd Fixes

SMP: (except SPARC)
P:	Alan Cox
M:	smp-patches@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
L:	linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

SPARC:
P:	Eddie C. Dost
M:	ecd@skynet.be
L:	sparclinux@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

SVGA HANDLING:
P:	Martin Mares
M:	mj@k332.feld.cvut.cz
L:	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

VFAT FILESYSTEM:
P:	Gordon Chaffee
M:	chaffee@plateau.cs.berkeley.edu
L:	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
W:	http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee
S:	Maintained

DIGIBOARD DRIVER:
P:	Christoph Lameter
M:	clameter@fuller.edu
L:	digiboard@list.fuller.edu
S:	Maintained

RISCOM8 DRIVER:
P:	Dmitry Gorodchanin
M:	begemot@bgm.rosprint.net
L:	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES [GENERAL]
P:	Alessandro Rubini
M:	rubini@ipvvis.unipv.it
L:	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

MENUCONFIG:
P:	William Roadcap
M:	roadcapw@cfw.com
L:	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

LANCE AND LANCE32 NETWORK DRIVER
P:	Thomas Bogendoerfer
M:	tsbogend@bigbug.franken.de
L:	linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

ADVANSYS SCSI DRIVER
P:	Bob Frey
M:	Bob Frey <bobf@advansys.com>
W:	http://www.advansys.com/linux
S:	Maintained

AHA152X SCSI DRIVER
P:	Juergen E. Fischer
M:	Juergen Fischer <fischer@et-inf.fho-emden.de>
L:	linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

SBPCD CDROM DRIVER
P:	Eberhard Moenkeberg
M:	emoenke@gwdg.de
L:	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

NON-IDE/NON-SCSI CDROM DRIVERS [GENERAL] (come on, crew - mark your responsibility)
P:	Eberhard Moenkeberg
M:	emoenke@gwdg.de
L:	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S:	Maintained

CREDITS FILE
P:	John A. Martin
M:	jam@acm.org
S:	Maintained

REST:
P:	Linus Torvalds
S:	Buried alive in email
