	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.
	In particular check that changes work both as a module and built into
	the kernel.

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 -u5' 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. See Documentation/CodingStyle for guidance here.

	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.

		-----------------------------------

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, but does occasionally happen).
	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.

3C501 NETWORK DRIVER
P:	Alan Cox
M:	alan@the.3c501.cabal.tm
L:	linux-net@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

3C505 NETWORK DRIVER
P:	Philip Blundell
M:	Philip.Blundell@pobox.com
L:	linux-net@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

8390 NETWORK DRIVERS [WD80x3/SMC-ELITE, SMC-ULTRA, NE2000, 3C503, etc.]
P:	Paul Gortmaker
M:	p_gortmaker@yahoo.com
L:	linux-net@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

ADVANSYS SCSI DRIVER
P:	Bob Frey
M:	linux@advansys.com
W:	http://www.advansys.com/linux.html
L:	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

AHA152X SCSI DRIVER
P:	Juergen E. Fischer
M:	Juergen Fischer <fischer@norbit.de>
L:	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

APM DRIVER
P:	Stephen Rothwell
M:	sfr@canb.auug.org.au
L:	linux-laptop@vger.kernel.org
W:	http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
S:	Supported

APPLETALK NETWORK LAYER
P:	Jay Schulist
M:	jschlst@samba.org
L:	linux-atalk@lists.netspace.org
S:	Maintained

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

AX.25 NETWORK LAYER
P:	Matthias Welwarsky
M:	dg2fef@afthd.tu-darmstadt.de
L:	linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

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

CYCLADES ASYNC MUX DRIVER
P:	Ivan Passos
M:	ivan@cyclades.com
W:	http://www.cyclades.com/
S:	Supported

DAMA SLAVE for AX.25
P:	Joerg Reuter
M:	jreuter@yaina.de
W:	http://yaina.de/jreuter/
W:	http://qsl.net/dl1bke/
L:	linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

DC390/AM53C974 SCSI driver
P:	Kurt Garloff
M:	kurt@garloff.de
W:	http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc390/
S:	Maintained

DEVICE NUMBER REGISTRY
P:	H. Peter Anvin
M:	hpa@zytor.com
L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

DEVICE FILESYSTEM
P:	Richard Gooch
M:	rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

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

DIGIBOARD DRIVER
P:	Christoph Lameter
M:	christoph@lameter.com
W:	http://www.dgii.com/linux,http://lameter.com/digi
L:	digilnux@dgii.com
S:	Maintained

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

EATA ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI DRIVER
P:	Dario Ballabio
M:	ballabio_dario@emc.com
L:	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

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

ETHEREXPRESS-16 NETWORK DRIVER
P:	Philip Blundell
M:	Philip.Blundell@pobox.com
L:	linux-net@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

EXT2 FILE SYSTEM
L:	ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
S:	Odd fixes

FILE LOCKING (flock() and fcntl()/lockf())
P:	Andy Walker
M:	andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no
L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

FPU EMULATOR
P:	Bill Metzenthen
M:	billm@suburbia.net
W:	http://suburbia.net/~billm/floating-point/emulator/
S:	Maintained

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

FTAPE/QIC-117
P:	Claus-Justus Heine
M:	claus@momo.math.rwth-aachen.de
L:	linux-tape@vger.kernel.org
W:	http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/ftape/
S:	Maintained

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

GSCD CDROM DRIVER
P:	Oliver Raupach
M:	oliver@mm.gop.de
L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

i386 BOOT CODE
P:	Riley Williams
M:	Riley@Williams.Name
L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
S:	Odd fixes

IDE DRIVER [GENERAL]
P:	Andre Hedrick
M:	andre@linux-ide.org
M:	andre@linuxdiskcert.org
L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
W:	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/
W:	http://www.linux-ide.org/
W:	http://www.linuxdiskcert.org/
S:	Maintained

IDE/ATAPI CDROM DRIVER 
P:	Jens Axboe
M:	axboe@suse.de
L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
W:	http://www.kernel.dk
S:	Maintained

IDE/ATAPI TAPE/FLOPPY DRIVERS
P:	Gadi Oxman
M:	Gadi Oxman <gadio@netvision.net.il>
L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

IP MASQUERADING (IPV4)
P:	Nigel Metheringham
M:	Nigel.Metheringham@ThePLAnet.net
L:	masq@indyramp.com
S:	Maintained

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

ISDN SUBSYSTEM [GENERAL]
P:	Fritz Elfert
M:	fritz@isdn4linux.de
L:	isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de
W:	http://www.isdn4linux.de
S:	Maintained

ISDN SUBSYSTEM HISAX
P:	Karsten Keil
M:	kkeil@suse.de
P:	Kai Germaschewski
M:	kai.germaschewski@gmx.de
L:	isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de
W:	http://www.isdn4linux.de
S:	Maintained

KERNEL AUTOMOUNTER (AUTOFS)
P:	H. Peter Anvin
M:	hpa@zytor.com
L:	autofs@linux.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

LANCE AND LANCE32 NETWORK DRIVER
P:	Thomas Bogendörfer
M:	tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
L:	linux-net@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

MENUCONFIG
P:	William Roadcap
M:	roadcapw@titus.org
L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

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

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

NCP FILESYSTEM
P:	Volker Lendecke
M:	vl@kki.org
L:	linware@sh.cvut.cz
S:	Odd Fixes

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

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

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

PPP PROTOCOL DRIVERS AND COMPRESSORS
P:	Al Longyear
M:	longyear@pobox.com
L:	linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

REAL TIME CLOCK DRIVER
P:	Paul Gortmaker
M:	p_gortmaker@yahoo.com
L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

RISCOM8 DRIVER
P:	Dmitry Gorodchanin
M:	pgmdsg@ibi.com
L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

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

SCSI SUBSYSTEM
L:	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
S:	Unmaintained

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

SMB FILESYSTEM
P:	Andrew Tridgell
M:	tridge@samba.org
W:	http://samba.org/
L:	samba@samba.org
S:	Maintained

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

SPARC
P:	David S. Miller
M:	davem@redhat.com
L:	sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

SPECIALIX IO8+ MULTIPORT SERIAL CARD DRIVER
P:	Roger Wolff
M:	R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl
M:	io8-linux@specialix.co.uk
L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ?
S:	Supported

STARMODE RADIO IP (STRIP) PROTOCOL DRIVER
W:	http://mosquitonet.Stanford.EDU/strip.html
S:	Unsupported ?

SVGA HANDLING
P:	Martin Mares
M:	mj@ucw.cz
L:	linux-video@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
S:	Maintained

TLAN NETWORK DRIVER
P:	Torben Mathiasen
M:	torben.mathiasen@compaq.com
M:	torben@kernel.dk
L:	tlan@vuser.vu.union.edu
L:	linux-net@vger.kernel.org
W:	http://tlan.kernel.dk
S:	Maintained

TOKEN-RING NETWORK DRIVER
P:      Paul Norton
M:	pnorton@ieee.org
L:      linux-net@vger.kernel.org
L:	linux-tr@linuxtr.net
S:      Maintained

U14-34F SCSI DRIVER
P:	Dario Ballabio
M:	ballabio_dario@emc.com
L:	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

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

WAVELAN NETWORK DRIVER & WIRELESS EXTENSIONS
P:	Jean Tourrilhes
M:	jt@hpl.hp.com
W:	http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
S:	Maintained

WD7000 SCSI DRIVER
P:	Miroslav Zagorac
M:	zaga@fly.cc.fer.hr
L:	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

Z8530 SCC DRIVER FOR AX.25
P:	Joerg Reuter
M:	jreuter@yaina.de
W:	http://yaina.de/jreuter/
W:	http://www.qsl.net/dl1bke/
L:	linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained

THE REST
P:	David Weinehall
M:	tao@kernel.org
L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
S:	Maintained
