How to handle patches that cross maintainers?

From: Kumar Gala
Date: Tue Jul 03 2007 - 05:01:52 EST


Andrew,

I was hoping to get your input on how to handle patches that cross maintainers. I've got a patch that is pretty PPC specific, but happens to touch some drivers as well.

Here's the diffstat to get a rough idea:

arch/powerpc/kernel/io.c | 12 ++++++------
arch/powerpc/mm/hash_native_64.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/mm/stab.c | 4 ++--
drivers/ide/pci/scc_pata.c | 4 ++--
drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/bt878.h | 5 ++---
drivers/serial/cpm_uart/cpm_uart_core.c | 2 +-
include/asm-powerpc/system.h | 2 +-
7 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Now, I've had this issue before w/o any good sense on how to handle it.

Suggestions?

- k
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