1 List of maintainers and how to submit kernel changes
3 Please try to follow the guidelines below. This will make things
4 easier on the maintainers. Not all of these guidelines matter for every
5 trivial patch so apply some common sense.
7 1. Always _test_ your changes, however small, on at least 4 or
8 5 people, preferably many more.
10 2. Try to release a few ALPHA test versions to the net. Announce
11 them onto the kernel channel and await results. This is especially
12 important for device drivers, because often that's the only way
13 you will find things like the fact version 3 firmware needs
14 a magic fix you didn't know about, or some clown changed the
15 chips on a board and not its name. (Don't laugh! Look at the
16 SMC etherpower for that.)
18 3. Make sure your changes compile correctly in multiple
19 configurations. In paticular check changes work both as a module
20 and built into the kernel.
22 4. When you are happy with a change make it generally available for
23 testing and await feedback.
25 5. Make a patch available to the relevant maintainer in the list. Use
26 'diff -u' to make the patch easy to merge. Be prepared to get your
27 changes sent back with seemingly silly requests about formatting
28 and variable names. These aren't as silly as they seem. One
29 job the maintainers (and especially Linus) do is to keep things
30 looking the same. Sometimes this means that the clever hack in
31 your driver to get around a problem actual needs to become a
32 generalized kernel feature ready for next time. See
33 Documentation/CodingStyle for guidance here.
35 PLEASE try to include any credit lines you want added with the
36 patch. It avoids people being missed off by mistake and makes
37 it easier to know who wants adding and who doesn't.
39 PLEASE document known bugs. If it doesn't work for everything
40 or does something very odd once a month document it.
42 6. Make sure you have the right to send any changes you make. If you
43 do changes at work you may find your employer owns the patch
48 -----------------------------------
50 Maintainers List (try to look for most precise areas first)
52 Note: For the hard of thinking, this list is meant to remain in Alphabetical
53 order. If you could add yourselves to it in Alphabetical order that would
58 L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area
59 W: Web-page with status/info
60 S: Status, one of the following:
62 Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this.
63 Maintained: Someone actually looks after it.
64 Odd Fixes: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do
65 much other than throw the odd patch in. See below..
66 Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the
67 role as you write your new code].
68 Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means
69 it has been replaced by a better system and you
74 M: alan@the.3c501.cabal.tm
75 L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
80 M: Philip.Blundell@pobox.com
81 L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
84 6PACK NETWORK DRIVER FOR AX.25
86 M: ajk@iehk.rwth-aachen.de
87 L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu
90 8390 NETWORK DRIVERS [WD80x3/SMC-ELITE, SMC-ULTRA, NE2000, 3C503, etc.]
92 M: gpg109@rsphy1.anu.edu.au
93 L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
95 W: http://rsphy1.anu.edu.au/~gpg109/ne2000.html
99 M: Thorsten Knabe <tek@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
100 M: Thorsten Knabe <tek01@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de>
101 W: http://www.student.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~tek/projects/linux.html
102 W: http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/~tek01/projects/linux.html
107 M: Bob Frey <bobf@advansys.com>
108 W: http://www.advansys.com/linux
112 P: Riccardo Facchetti
117 P: Juergen E. Fischer
118 M: Juergen Fischer <fischer@et-inf.fho-emden.de>
119 L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
124 M: Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au
125 L: linux-laptop@vger.rutgers.edu
128 APPLETALK NETWORK LAYER
130 M: Jay.Schulist@spacs.k12.wi.us
131 L: linux-atalk@netspace.org
137 L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
140 ARM MFM AND FLOPPY DRIVERS
147 M: linux@arm.uk.linux.org
148 L: linux-arm@vger.rutgers.edu
149 L: arm-linux@tardis.ed.ac.uk
150 W: http://www.arm.uk.linux.org/~rmk/armlinux.html
154 P: Matthias Welwarsky
155 M: dg2fef@afthd.tu-darmstadt.de
156 L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu
159 BAYCOM/HDLCDRV/SOUNDMODEM DRIVERS FOR AX.25
161 M: sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch
162 L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu
163 W: http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/~sailer/ham/ham.html
167 P: Leonard N. Zubkoff
168 M: Leonard N. Zubkoff <lnz@dandelion.com>
169 L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
170 W: http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/
173 CONFIGURE, MENUCONFIG, XCONFIG
174 P: Michael Elizabeth Chastain
176 L: linux-kbuild@torque.net
181 M: boldt@math.ucsb.edu
184 COSA/SRP SYNC SERIAL DRIVER
185 P: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak
187 W: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/cosa/
195 CYCLADES ASYNC MUX DRIVER
197 M: Ivan Passos <ivan@cyclades.com>
198 W: http://www.cyclades.com/
203 M: jreuter@poboxes.com
204 W: http://poboxes.com/jreuter/
205 W: http://qsl.net/dl1bke/
206 L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu
209 DC390/AM53C974 SCSI driver
212 W: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc390/
218 W: http://www.sucs.swan.ac.uk/~rohan/
219 W: http://www-sigproc.eng.cam.ac.uk/~sjw44/
220 L: netdev@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx
223 DEVICE NUMBER REGISTRY
226 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
229 DIGI INTL. EPCA DRIVER
233 L: digiboard@list.fuller.edu
236 DIGI RIGHTSWITCH NETWORK DRIVER
239 L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
240 W: http://www.dgii.com/linux/
244 P: Marco van Wieringen
245 M: mvw@planets.elm.net
246 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
251 M: mike@i-Connect.Net
252 L: linux-eata@i-connect.net, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
255 EATA ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI DRIVER
257 M: dario@milano.europe.dg.com
258 L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
263 M: mike@i-Connect.Net
264 L: linux-eata@i-connect.net, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
267 ETHEREXPRESS-16 NETWORK DRIVER
269 M: Philip.Blundell@pobox.com
270 L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
280 M: Remy.Card@linux.org
281 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
284 FILE LOCKING (flock() and fcntl()/lockf())
286 M: andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no
287 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
292 M: billm@suburbia.net
293 W: http://suburbia.net/~billm/floating-point/emulator/
296 FRAME RELAY DLCI/FRAD (Sangoma drivers too)
298 M: mike.mclagan@linux.org
299 L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
303 P: Claus-Justus Heine
304 M: claus@momo.math.rwth-aachen.de
305 L: linux-tape@vger.rutgers.edu
306 W: http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/ftape/
309 FUTURE DOMAIN TMC-16x0 SCSI DRIVER (16-bit)
312 L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
313 S: Odd fixes (e.g., new signatures)
315 GDT SCSI DISK ARRAY CONTROLLER DRIVER
318 L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
319 W: http://www.icp-vortex.com/
322 HAYES ESP SERIAL DRIVER
323 P: Andrew J. Robinson
325 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
326 W: http://www.nyx.net/~arobinso
331 M: asun@u.washington.edu
332 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
335 HIGH-SPEED SCC DRIVER FOR AX.25
337 M: oe1kib@oe1kib.ampr.org
338 L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu
343 M: Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch
344 L: linux-hippi@sunsite.auc.dk
347 HP100: Driver for HP 10/100 Mbit/s Voice Grade Network Adapter Series
352 IBM MCA SCSI SUBSYSTEM DRIVER
354 M: langa2@kph.uni-mainz.de
355 W: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~langm000/linux.html
360 M: hedrick@astro.dyer.vanderbilt.edu
361 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
364 IDE/ATAPI CDROM DRIVER
367 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
370 IDE/ATAPI TAPE/FLOPPY DRIVERS
372 M: Gadi Oxman <gadio@netvision.net.il>
373 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
378 M: Paul.Russell@rustcorp.com.au
379 W: http://www.rustcorp.com/linux/ipchains
382 IPX/SPX NETWORK LAYER
384 M: Jay Schulist <Jay.Schulist@spacs.k12.wi.us>
385 L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
390 M: Dag Brattli <dagb@cs.uit.no>
391 L: linux-irda@list.uit.no
392 W: http://www.cs.uit.no/~dagb/irda/
397 M: fritz@wuemaus.franken.de
398 L: isdn4linux@hub-wue.franken.de
404 L: linux-joystick@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
405 W: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/joystick/
408 KERNEL AUTOMOUNTER (AUTOFS)
411 L: autofs@linux.kernel.org
415 P: G. Allen Morris III
417 L: nfs-devel@linux.kernel.org (Linux NFS)
418 W: http://csua.berkeley.edu/~gam3/knfsd
424 L: linux-x25@vger.rutgers.edu
427 LINUX FOR POWERPC (PREP)
430 W: http://linuxppc.cs.nmt.edu/
433 LINUX FOR POWER MACINTOSH
435 M: paulus@cs.anu.edu.au
436 L: linux-pmac@samba.anu.edu.au
441 M: Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch
442 W: http://www.clark.net/pub/lawrencc/linux/index.html
443 L: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
446 M68K ON APPLE MACINTOSH
448 M: Alan.Cox@linux.org
449 W: http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/home.html
450 L: linux-mac68k@wave.lm.com
451 S: As time permits [Michael confess, you are the mac68k maintainer 8)]
456 W: http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/linux-hp
461 M: ralf@gnu.ai.mit.edu
462 W: http://lena.fnet.fr/
463 L: linux-mips@fnet.fr
466 MISCELLANEOUS MCA-SUPPORT
468 M: mcalinux@acc.umu.se (project MCA-team)
469 M: tao@acc.umu.se (personal)
470 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
473 MODULE SUPPORT [GENERAL], KERNELD
475 M: richard@gnu.ai.mit.edu
476 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
479 MOUSE AND MISC DEVICES [GENERAL]
481 M: rubini@ipvvis.unipv.it
482 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
485 MTRR AND SIMILAR SUPPORT [i386]
487 M: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
488 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
489 W: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/kernel-patches.html
492 MULTISOUND SOUND DRIVER
499 M: vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
502 L: linware@sh.cvut.cz
507 M: Tomi.Manninen@hut.fi
508 L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu
513 M: pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
518 M: netdev@nuclecu.unam.mx
519 L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
520 W: http://www.uk.linux.org/NetNews.html (2.0 only)
523 NETWORKING [IPv4/IPv6]
525 M: davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
529 M: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
530 L: netdev@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx
533 NI5010 NETWORK DRIVER
534 P: Jan-Pascal van Best and Andreas Mohr
535 M: jvbest@qv3pluto.leidenuniv.nl (Best)
536 M: 100.30936@germany.net (Mohr)
537 L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
540 NON-IDE/NON-SCSI CDROM DRIVERS [GENERAL] (come on, crew - mark your responsibility)
541 P: Eberhard Moenkeberg
543 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
546 OPL3-SA2, SA3, and SAx DRIVER
548 M: scottm@interlog.com
549 L: linux-sound@vger.rutgers.edu
552 PARALLEL PORT SUPPORT
554 M: Philip.Blundell@pobox.com
556 M: tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk
558 M: campbell@torque.net
561 L: linux-parport@torque.net
562 W: http://www.cyberelk.demon.co.uk/parport.html
565 PARIDE DRIVERS FOR PARALLEL PORT IDE DEVICES
568 L: linux-parport@torque.net
569 W: http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html
574 M: jmaurer@cck.uni-kl.de
579 M: mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
580 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
583 PCI SOUND DRIVERS (ES1370, ES1371 and SONICVIBES)
585 M: sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch
586 L: linux-sound@vger.rutgers.edu
587 W: http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/~sailer/linux/pciaudio.html
590 PCNET32 NETWORK DRIVER
591 P: Thomas Bogendörfer
592 M: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
593 L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
598 M: tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk
599 L: pnp-users@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk
600 L: pnp-devel@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk
601 W: http://www-jcr.lmh.ox.ac.uk/~pnp/
604 PPP PROTOCOL DRIVERS AND COMPRESSORS
606 M: longyear@pobox.com
607 L: linux-ppp@vger.rutgers.edu
610 REAL TIME CLOCK DRIVER
612 M gpg109@rsphy1.anu.edu.au
613 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
619 L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu
623 P: Dmitry Gorodchanin
625 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
629 P: Eberhard Moenkeberg
631 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
635 L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
640 M: Kai.Makisara@metla.fi
641 L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
644 SGI VISUAL WORKSTATION 320 AND 540
654 L: samba@listproc.anu.edu.au
659 M: torvalds@transmeta.com
660 L: linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu
664 P: Thomas Bogendoerfer
665 M: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
666 L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
677 L: sparclinux@vger.rutgers.edu
680 SPECIALIX IO8+ MULTIPORT SERIAL CARD DRIVER
682 M: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl
683 M: io8-linux@specialix.co.uk
684 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu ?
689 M: Jay.Schulist@spacs.k12.wi.us
690 L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
693 STALLION TECHNOLOGIES MULTIPORT SERIAL BOARDS
695 M: support@stallion.oz.au
697 W: http://www.stallion.com
700 STARMODE RADIO IP (STRIP) PROTOCOL DRIVER
702 M: cheshire@cs.stanford.edu
703 W: http://mosquitonet.Stanford.EDU/strip.html
708 M: mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
709 L: linux-video@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
713 P: Krzysztof G. Baranowski
714 M: kgb@manjak.knm.org.pl
719 M: james@sovereign.org
720 L: tlan@vuser.vu.union.edu
723 TOKEN-RING NETWORK DRIVER
726 L: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
727 L: linux-tr@emissary.aus-etc.com
732 M: dario@milano.europe.dg.com
733 L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
738 M: mnalis@jagor.srce.hr
739 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
745 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
750 M: chaffee@cs.berkeley.edu
751 L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
752 W: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee
757 M: Alan.Cox@linux.org
758 W: http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/v4l.shtml
761 WAN ROUTER AND SANGOMA WANPIPE DRIVERS (X.25, FRAME RELAY, PPP)
763 M: genek@compuserve.com
765 W: http://www.sangoma.com
768 WAVELAN NETWORK DRIVER & WIRELESS EXTENSIONS
770 M: jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com
775 M: zaga@fly.cc.fer.hr
776 L: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
782 L: linux-x25@vger.rutgers.edu
785 Z85230 SYNCHRONOUS DRIVER
788 W: http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/synchronous.shtml
791 Z8530 DRIVER FOR AX.25
793 M: jreuter@poboxes.com
794 W: http://poboxes.com/jreuter/
795 W: http://qsl.net/dl1bke/
796 L: linux-hams@vger.rutgers.edu
801 S: Buried alive in diapers