Documentation/maintainer/feature-and-driver-maintainers.rst

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7 The term "maintainer" spans a very wide range of levels of engagement
36 may range from two working days for fast-paced subsystems (e.g. networking)
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43 Maintainers must be subscribed and follow the appropriate subsystem-wide
46 `lei <https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/lore-lei-part-1-getting-started>`_.
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55 no matter how trivial. If the patch is a tree wide change and modifies
56 multiple drivers - whether to provide a review is left to the maintainer.
58 When there are multiple maintainers for a piece of code an ``Acked-by``
59 or ``Reviewed-by`` tag (or review comments) from a single maintainer is
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83 problem that might be severe -- especially if they have *Supported*
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140 The maintainer position more closely matches an on-call rotation
146  - unknown to the community, never sent an email to the list before
147  - did not author any of the code
148  - (when development is contracted) works for a company which paid