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 generalized 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. ----------------------------------- 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 Something tagged obsolete generally means it has been replaced by a better system and you should be using that.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 DISKQUOTA: P: Marco van Wieringen M: mvw@planets.elm.net 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 W: http://rsphy1.anu.edu.au/~gpg109/ne2000.html ETHEREXPRESS-16 NETWORK DRIVER P: Philip Blundell M: Philip.Blundell@pobox.com L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained 3C505 NETWORK DRIVER P: Philip Blundell M: Philip.Blundell@pobox.com L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained NI5010 NETWORK DRIVER P: Jan-Pascal van Best and Andreas Mohr M: jvbest@qv3pluto.leidenuniv.nl (Best) M: 100.30936@germany.net (Mohr) L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained TLAN NETWORK DRIVER P: James Banks M: james.banks@caldera.com L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu S: Supported 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 WAVELAN NETWORK DRIVER & WIRELESS EXTENSIONS P: Jean Tourrilhes M: jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com S: Maintained HP100: Driver for HP 10/100 Mbit/s Network Adapter Series P: Jarsolav Kysela M: perex@jcu.cz 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 TOKEN-RING NETWORK DRIVER P: Paul Norton M: pnorton@cts.com L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained APPLETALK NETWORK LAYER P: Jay Schulist M: Jay.Schulist@spacs.k12.wi.us L: linux-atalk@netspace.org S: Maintained DECnet NETWORK LAYER P: Steven Whitehouse M: SteveW@ACM.org L: netdev@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx S: Maintained AX.25 NETWORK LAYER P: Jon Naylor M: jsn@cs.nott.ac.uk L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained DAMA SLAVE for AX.25 P: Joerg Reuter M: jreuter@lykos.oche.de L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained Z8530 DRIVER FOR AX.25 P: Joerg Reuter M: jreuter@lykos.oche.de L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained BAYCOM/HDLCDRV/SOUNDMODEM DRIVERS FOR AX.25 P: Thomas Sailer M: sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu W: http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/~sailer/ham/ham.html S: Maintained BUSLOGIC SCSI DRIVER P: Leonard N. Zubkoff M: Leonard N. Zubkoff L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu W: http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/ S: Maintained CYCLADES ASYNC MUX DRIVER P: Marcio Saito M: Marcio Saito W: http://www.cyclades.com/ S: Supported EATA ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI DRIVER P: Dario Ballabio M: dario@milano.europe.dg.com L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained U14-34F SCSI DRIVER P: Dario Ballabio M: dario@milano.europe.dg.com L: linux-scsi@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 GDT SCSI DISK ARRAY CONTROLLER DRIVER P: Achim Leubner M: achim@vortex.de L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu W: http://www.icp-vortex.com/ S: Supported FILE LOCKING (flock() and fcntl()/lockf()) P: Andy Walker M: andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no L: linux-kernel@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 Mdkisara M: Kai.Makisara@metla.fi L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained FTAPE/QIC-117: P: Claus-Justus Heine M: claus@momo.math.rwth-aachen.de L: linux-tape@vger.rutgers.edu W: http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/ftape/ S: Maintained IPX NETWORK LAYER P: M: L: S: Orphan IDE DRIVER [GENERAL] P: Mark Lord M: mlord@pobox.com L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained IDE/ATAPI CDROM DRIVER P: Erik Andersen M: andersee@debian.org 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 M68K: P: Jes Sorensen M: Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch W: http://www.clark.net/pub/lawrencc/linux/index.html L: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org S: Maintained MODULE SUPPORT [GENERAL], KERNELD P: Richard Henderson M: richard@gnu.ai.mit.edu 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 MIPS: P: Ralf Baechle M: ralf@gnu.ai.mit.edu W: http://lena.fnet.fr/ L: linux-mips@fnet.fr S: Maintained NCP FILESYSTEM: P: Volker Lendecke M: lendecke@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: Networking Teak M: netdev@nuclecu.unam.mx L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu W: http://www.uk.linux.org/NetNews.html (2.0 only) S: Maintained NETWORKING [IPv4/IPv6]: P: David S. Miller M: davem@caip.rutgers.edu P: Eric Schenk M: Eric.Schenk@dna.lth.se L: netdev@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx S: Maintained PPP PROTOCOL DRIVERS AND COMPRESSORS P: Al Longyear M: longyear@pobox.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 WAN ROUTER AND SANGOMA WANPIPE DRIVERS (X.25, FRAME RELAY, PPP) P: Gene Kozin M: genek@compuserve.com M: dm@sangoma.com W: http://www.sangoma.com S: Supported SMB FILESYSTEM: P: Volker Lendecke M: lendecke@Math.Uni-Goettingen.de L: samba@listproc.anu.edu.au S: Maintained SMP: (except SPARC) P: Linus Torvalds M: torvalds@transmeta.com L: linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained SPARC: P: David S. Miller M: davem@caip.rutgers.edu L: sparclinux@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained SCSI SUBSYSTEM P: Leonard N. Zubkoff M: Leonard N. Zubkoff L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained SVGA HANDLING: P: Martin Mares M: mj@k332.feld.cvut.cz L: linux-video@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz S: Maintained VFAT FILESYSTEM: P: Gordon Chaffee M: chaffee@cs.berkeley.edu L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu W: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee S: Maintained DIGI INTL. EPCA DRIVER: P: Daniel Taylor M: support@dgii.com M: digilnux@dgii.com 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 HAYES ESP SERIAL DRIVER: P: Andrew J. Robinson M: arobinso@nyx.net L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu W: http://www.nyx.net/~arobinso S: Maintainted 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 CONFIGURE.HELP P: Axel Boldt M: boldt@math.ucsb.edu S: Maintained PCI ID DATABASE P: Jens Maurer M: jmaurer@cck.uni-kl.de S: Maintained PCNET32 NETWORK DRIVER P: Thomas Bogendoerfer M: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained ADVANSYS SCSI DRIVER P: Bob Frey M: Bob Frey W: http://www.advansys.com/linux S: Maintained AHA152X SCSI DRIVER P: Juergen E. Fischer M: Juergen Fischer 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 PARALLEL PORT SHARING SUPPORT P: Phil Blundell M: Philip.Blundell@pobox.com P: Tim Waugh M: tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk P: David Campbell M: campbell@tirian.che.curtin.edu.au L: linux-parport@torque.net L: pnp-list@redhat.com W: http://www.cyberelk.demon.co.uk/parport.html W: http://www.cage.curtin.edu.au/~campbell/parbus/ S: Maintained PNP SUPPORT P: Tom Lees M: tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk L: pnp-list@lpsg.demon.co.uk L: pnp-list@redhat.com (maybe) W: http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pnp-linux.html S: Maintained LINUX FOR POWERPC (PREP) P: Cort Dougan M: cort@cs.nmt.edu W: http://www.cs.nmt.edu/~linuxppc/ S: Maintained LINUX FOR POWER MACINTOSH P: Paul Mackerras M: paulus@cs.anu.edu.au L: linux-pmac@samba.anu.edu.au S: Maintained FPU EMULATOR P: Bill Metzenthen M: billm@suburbia.net W: http://suburbia.net/~billm/floating-point/emulator/ S: Maintained CREDITS FILE P: John A. Martin M: jam@acm.org S: Maintained KERNEL AUTOMOUNTER (AUTOFS) P: H. Peter Anvin M: hpa@zytor.com L: autofs@linux.kernel.org S: Maintained DEVICE NUMBER REGISTRY P: H. Peter Anvin M: hpa@zytor.com L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu S: Maintained JOYSTICK DRIVER P: Vojtech Pavlik M: vojtech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz S: Maintained NETWORK BLOCK DEVICE P: Pavel Machek M: pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz S: Maintained REST: P: Linus Torvalds S: Buried alive in diapers