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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.
3C501 NETWORK DRIVER
P: Alan Cox
M: net-patches@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
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
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
AEDSP16 DRIVER
P: Riccardo Facchetti
M: fizban@tin.it
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
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: Jay Schulist
M: Jay.Schulist@spacs.k12.wi.us
L: linux-atalk@netspace.org
S: Maintained
ARPD SUPPORT
P: Jonathan Layes
M: layes@loran.com
L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
S: Maintained
AX.25 NETWORK LAYER
P: Jon Naylor
M: jsn@cs.nott.ac.uk
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 <lnz@dandelion.com>
L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
W: http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/
S: Maintained
CONFIGURE.HELP
P: Axel Boldt
M: boldt@math.ucsb.edu
S: Maintained
CREDITS FILE
P: John A. Martin
M: jam@acm.org
S: Maintained
CYCLADES ASYNC MUX DRIVER
P: Marcio Saito
M: Marcio Saito <marcio@cyclades.com>
W: http://www.cyclades.com/
S: Supported
DAMA SLAVE for AX.25
P: Joerg Reuter
M: jreuter@poboxes.com
W: http://www.rat.de/jr/
W: http://qsl.net/dl1bke/
L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu
S: Maintained
DECnet NETWORK LAYER
P: Steven Whitehouse
M: SteveW@ACM.org
L: netdev@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx
S: Maintained
DEVICE NUMBER REGISTRY
P: H. Peter Anvin
M: hpa@zytor.com
L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S: Maintained
DIGI INTL. EPCA DRIVER:
P: Daniel Taylor
M: support@dgii.com
M: digilnux@dgii.com
L: digiboard@list.fuller.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
DISKQUOTA:
P: Marco van Wieringen
M: mvw@planets.elm.net
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 ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI DRIVER
P: Dario Ballabio
M: dario@milano.europe.dg.com
L: 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
ETHEREXPRESS-16 NETWORK DRIVER
P: Philip Blundell
M: Philip.Blundell@pobox.com
L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
S: Maintained
EXT2 FILE SYSTEM
P: Remy Card
M: Remy.Card@linux.org
L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S: Maintained
FILE LOCKING (flock() and fcntl()/lockf())
P: Andy Walker
M: andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no
L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
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.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
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)
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
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
HIGH-SPEED SCC DRIVER FOR AX.25
P: Klaus Kudielka
M: oe1kib@oe1xtu.ampr.org
L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu
S: Maintained
HP100: Driver for HP 10/100 Mbit/s Network Adapter Series
P: Jarsolav Kysela
M: perex@jcu.cz
S: Maintained
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
IDE/ATAPI TAPE/FLOPPY DRIVERS
P: Gadi Oxman
M: Gadi Oxman <gadio@netvision.net.il>
L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S: Maintained
IPX NETWORK LAYER
P:
M:
L:
S: Orphan
ISDN SUBSYSTEM
P: Fritz Elfert
M: fritz@wuemaus.franken.de
L: isdn4linux@hub-wue.franken.de
S: Maintained
JOYSTICK DRIVER
P: Vojtech Pavlik
M: vojtech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
S: Maintained
KERNEL AUTOMOUNTER (AUTOFS)
P: H. Peter Anvin
M: hpa@zytor.com
L: autofs@linux.kernel.org
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
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
M68K ON APPLE MACINTOSH:
P: Alan Cox
M: Alan.Cox@linux.org
W: http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/home.html
L: linux-mac68k@wave.lm.com
S: Maintained
MENUCONFIG:
P: Michael Elizabeth Chastain
M: mec@shout.net
L: linux-kernel@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
MODULE SUPPORT [GENERAL], KERNELD
P: Richard Henderson
M: richard@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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
NCP FILESYSTEM:
P: Petr Vandrovec
M: vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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
NETWORK BLOCK DEVICE
P: Pavel Machek
M: pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
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
P: Alexey Kuznetsov
M: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
L: netdev@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx
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
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
PARIDE DRIVERS FOR PARALLEL PORT IDE DEVICES
P: Grant Guenther
M: grant@torque.net
L: linux-parport@torque.net
W: http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html
S: Maintained
PCI ID DATABASE
P: Jens Maurer
M: jmaurer@cck.uni-kl.de
S: Maintained
PCI SUBSYSTEM
P: Martin Mares
M: mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S: Maintained
PCNET32 NETWORK DRIVER
P: Thomas Bogendoerfer
M: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
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
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
RISCOM8 DRIVER:
P: Dmitry Gorodchanin
M: pgmdsg@ibi.com
L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S: Maintained
SBPCD CDROM DRIVER
P: Eberhard Moenkeberg
M: emoenke@gwdg.de
L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
S: Maintained
SCSI SUBSYSTEM
P: Leonard N. Zubkoff
M: Leonard N. Zubkoff <lnz@dandelion.com>
L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
S: Maintained
SCSI TAPE DRIVER
P: Kai Mdkisara
M: Kai.Makisara@metla.fi
L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
S: Maintained
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
SOUND
P: Alan Cox
M: Alan Cox@linux.org
S: Maintained
SPARC:
P: Eddie C. Dost
M: ecd@skynet.be
L: sparclinux@vger.rutgers.edu
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.rutgers.edu ?
S: Supported
STALLION TECHNOLOGIES MULTIPORT SERIAL BOARDS
P: Greg Ungerer
M: support@stallion.oz.au
M: gerg@stallion.com
W: http://www.stallion.com
S: Supported
STARMODE RADIO IP (STRIP) PROTOCOL DRIVER
P: Stuart Cheshire
M: cheshire@cs.stanford.edu
W: http://mosquitonet.Stanford.EDU/strip.html
S: Maintained
SVGA HANDLING:
P: Martin Mares
M: mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
L: linux-video@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
S: Maintained
SYSV FILESYSTEM
P: Krzysztof G. Baranowski
M: kgb@manjak.knm.org.pl
S: Maintained
TLAN NETWORK DRIVER
P: James Banks
M: james.banks@caldera.com
L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
S: Supported
TOKEN-RING NETWORK DRIVER
P: Paul Norton
M: pnorton@cts.com
L: linux-net@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
UNIFORM CDROM DRIVER
P: Erik Andersen
M: andersee@debian.org
L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
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
VIDEO FOR LINUX
P: Alan Cox
M: Alan.Cox@linux.org
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
WAVELAN NETWORK DRIVER & WIRELESS EXTENSIONS
P: Jean Tourrilhes
M: jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com
S: Maintained
Z8530 DRIVER FOR AX.25
P: Joerg Reuter
M: jreuter@poboxes.com
W: http://www.rat.de/jr/
W: http://qsl.net/dl1bke/
L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu
S: Maintained
REST:
P: Linus Torvalds
S: Buried alive in diapers
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