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Mauro Carvalho Chehab 08a9a8d44c doc: re-add CodingStyle and SubmittingPatches
Those files got moved to Documentation/process, but as they're very
well known files, add pointers to their new locations.

PS.: I opted to not merge this patch with the previous one
in order to make the diff of the previous one more consistent,
as it will show only renames.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 186128f753 docs-rst: add documents to development-process
Add several documents to the development-process ReST book.

As we don't want renames, use symlinks instead, keeping those
documents on their original place.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 0e4f07a65f docs: rename development-process/ to process/
As we'll type this a lot, after adding CodingStyle & friends,
let's rename the directory name to a shorter one.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab dca22a63fd docs-rst: add inter-document cross references
Add cross references for the development process documents
that were converted to ReST:
	Documentation/SubmitChecklist
	Documentation/SubmittingDrivers
	Documentation/SubmittingPatches
	Documentation/development-process/development-process.rst
	Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-21 15:43:09 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 609d99a3b7 Documentation/HOWTO: add cross-references to other documents
Add cross references for the documents mentioned at HOWTO and
are under the Documentation/ directory, using the ReST notation.

It should be noticed that HOWTO also mentions the /README file.
We opted to not touch it, for now, as making it build on
Sphinx would require it to be moved to a Documentation/foo
directory.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-20 18:41:04 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 9b2c76777a Documentation/SubmittingPatches: enrich the Sphinx output
Do a few changes to make the output look better:

- use bullets on trivial patches list;
- use monotonic font for tools name;
- use :manpage:`foo` for man pages;
- don't put all references to maintainer*html at the same line.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-20 18:39:31 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 5903019b2a Documentation/SubmittingPatches: convert it to ReST markup
- Change the sections to use ReST markup;
- Add cross-references where needed;
- convert aspas to verbatim text;
- use code block tags;
- make Sphinx happy.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-20 18:39:17 -06:00
Jakub Wilk 6ac9937c97 SubmittingPatches: fix spelling of "git send-email"
Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-01-25 12:30:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4aeabc6b5c A few more documentation patches that wandered in and have no reason to
wait; these include some improvements to the suggestions for email clients
 and patch submission.
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Merge tag '4.4-additional' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull more documentation updates from Jon Corbet:
 "A few more documentation patches that wandered in and have no reason
  to wait; these include some improvements to the suggestions for email
  clients and patch submission"

* tag '4.4-additional' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  Documentation: Add minimal Mutt config for using Gmail
  Documentation: Add note on sending files directly with Mutt
  Documentation: dontdiff: remove media from dontdiff
  Documentation/SubmittingPatches: discuss In-Reply-To
  Remove email address from Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
  can-doc: Add missing semicolon to example
2015-11-13 09:19:05 -08:00
Chris Metcalf d7ac8d85d3 Documentation/SubmittingPatches: discuss In-Reply-To
Add a paragraph suggesting best practices for when to link patches
to previous LKML messages via In-Reply-To.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
[jc: moved the added text to a separate section]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-11-11 10:06:00 -07:00
Alex Henrie e12d74623d SubmittingPatches: make Subject examples match the de facto standard
The examples should better match what kernel developers actually expect,
so that they set a good example both for this project and for other
projects with similar development processes.

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-09-24 15:57:42 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 089b669506 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "The usual stuff from trivial tree for 4.3 (kerneldoc updates, printk()
  fixes, Documentation and MAINTAINERS updates)"

* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: update my e-mail address
  mod_devicetable: add space before */
  scsi: a100u2w: trivial typo in printk
  i2c: Fix typo in i2c-bfin-twi.c
  treewide: fix typos in comment blocks
  Doc: fix trivial typo in SubmittingPatches
  proportions: Spelling s/consitent/consistent/
  dm: Spelling s/consitent/consistent/
  aic7xxx: Fix typo in error message
  pcmcia: Fix typo in locking documentation
  scsi/arcmsr: Fix typos in error log
  drm/nouveau/gr: Fix typo in nv10.c
  [SCSI] Fix printk typos in drivers/scsi
  staging: comedi: Grammar s/Enable support a/Enable support for a/
  Btrfs: Spelling s/consitent/consistent/
  README: GTK+ is a acronym
  ASoC: omap: Fix typo in config option description
  mm: tlb.c: Fix error message
  ntfs: super.c: Fix error log
  fix typo in Documentation/SubmittingPatches
  ...
2015-09-01 18:46:42 -07:00
Benjamin Herr 6ade97724f Doc: fix trivial typo in SubmittingPatches
This patch changes the tense of a verb in SubmittingPatches to ensure
grammatical validity of the containing sentence.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herr <ben@0x539.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>
2015-08-07 14:39:19 +02:00
Nik Nyby 253508cadd fix typo in Documentation/SubmittingPatches
This adds a missing letter in Documentation/SubmittingPatches.

Signed-off-by: Nik Nyby <nikolas@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>
2015-08-07 14:05:47 +02:00
Jakub Wilk 64e32895f9 SubmittingPatches: remove stray quote character
Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-08-06 12:59:29 -06:00
Benjamin Herr 013542caa8 Doc: fix trivial typo in SubmittingPatches
This patch changes the tense of a verb in SubmittingPatches to ensure
grammatical validity of the containing sentence.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herr <ben@0x539.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-07-24 15:14:17 +02:00
Sébastien Hinderer 6e7ac7b4ab SubmittingPatches: fix wrong wording
"facilitate easier reviewing" says the same thing twice.

Signed-off-by: Sébastien Hinderer <Sebastien.Hinderer@ens-lyon.org>
[jc: made it "easier review"]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-07-14 12:33:21 -06:00
Sébastien Hinderer bdc8921371 SubmittingPatches: fix wrong wording
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Hinderer <Sebastien.Hinderer@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-07-14 12:31:43 -06:00
Luis de Bethencourt 60498bb58e SubmittingPatches: update CodingStyle reference
Link to the internal up to date Coding Style document inside the Kernel
sources instead of an external one.

Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luis@debethencourt.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-07-10 13:56:44 -06:00
Sébastien Hinderer d6eff078e0 SubmittingPatches: fix typo
From 7e0befc8e48a49e2ddf86bbd861027b14ea5a53d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=A9bastien=20Hinderer?=
 <Sebastien.Hinderer@ens-lyon.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 21:10:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: fix typo
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Signed-off-by: Sébastien Hinderer <Sebastien.Hinderer@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-07-09 14:30:00 -06:00
Luke Dashjr 8cda4c3ad4 SubmittingPatches: Clarify requirements for patches directed toward stable
I misunderstood this section as simply asking me to add an email Cc, and
was unaware of the existence of Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
Hopefully this clarification will help save maintainers and new/rare
submitters time in the future.

Signed-off-by: Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-05-14 15:34:52 -04:00
Joe Perches 2a076f40d8 checkpatch, SubmittingPatches: suggest line wrapping commit messages at 75 columns
Commit messages lines are sometimes overly long.

Suggest line wrapping at 75 columns so the default git commit log
indentation of 4 plus the commit message text still fits on an 80 column
screen.

Add a checkpatch test for long commit messages lines too.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ian Morris <ipm@chirality.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-17 09:03:57 -04:00
Jonathan Corbet fbd3a46612 Merge branch 'doc/sp-update' into docs-next
Bring in the big SubmittingPatches thrashup.

Conflicts:
	Documentation/SubmittingPatches
2015-01-29 13:11:58 -07:00
Stefan Beller e00bfcbf04 Documentation/SubmittingPatches: unify whitespace/tabs for the DCO
The Developers Certificate of Origin has a mixture of tabs and white
spaces which is annoying to view if your editor explicitly views white
space characters.

Also remove any trailing white spaces found in the file.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2014-12-29 16:20:13 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet b792ffe464 Docs: SubmittingPatches: mention using pull requests as a cover letter
Suggested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2014-12-23 09:28:40 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet 082bd1ca9a Docs: Mention device tree binding info
Suggested-by: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2014-12-23 09:27:04 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet d00c455964 Docs: SubmittingPatches: miscellaneous cleanups
Changes to make the formatting a bit more consistent and fix up wording in
various places.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2014-12-23 08:54:36 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet 0eea231437 Docs: SubmittingPatches: update follow-through instructions
SubmittingPatches was written in the "keep sending to Linus until something
shows up in a release" era.  Given that we don't do things that way anymore
and the system is far less lossy, update this information and add some
hints on responding to reviewer comments.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2014-12-23 08:52:01 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet ccae8616ec Docs: Update recipient information in SubmittingPatches
SubmittingPatches had two sections on selecting recipients; both were
showing their age.  Unify them into a single section that more closely
reflects how we do things now.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2014-12-23 08:49:18 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet 7994cc15d8 Docs: Bring SubmittingPatches more into the git era
Much of the information in SubmittingPatches shows its pre-git history.
Clean that up a bit and rephrase things with the assumption that developers
will be using git.  Also rewrite the "pull requests" section and include
information on using signed tags.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2014-12-23 08:43:41 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet 6de16eba62 Docs: Remove "tips and tricks" from SubmittingPatches
This section was just a weird collection of stuff that is better found
elsewhere.  The "coding style" section somewhat duplicated the previous
coding style section; the useful information there has been collected into
a single place.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2014-12-23 08:38:24 -07:00
Dan Carpenter d75ef707ea Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Reported-by tags and permission
The reported-by text says you have to ask for permission, but that
should only be if the bug was reported in private.  These days the
standard is to always give reported-by credit or it's considered a bit
rude.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2014-10-29 08:56:46 -04:00
Sudip Mukherjee 7e0dae61e2 Documentation: new page link in SubmittingPatches
new link for - How to piss off a Linux kernel subsystem maintainer

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-09-07 15:21:13 -07:00
Johannes Weiner 7b9828d441 Documentation: SubmittingPatches: overhaul changelog description
Maintainers often repeat the same feedback on poorly written
changelogs - describe the problem, justify your changes, quantify
optimizations, describe user-visible changes - but our documentation
on writing changelogs doesn't include these things.  Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-09 09:13:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 158c12948f Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree changes from Jiri Kosina:
 "Summer edition of trivial tree updates"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits)
  doc: fix two typos in watchdog-api.txt
  irq-gic: remove file name from heading comment
  MAINTAINERS: Add miscdevice.h to file list for char/misc drivers.
  scsi: mvsas: mv_sas.c: Fix for possible null pointer dereference
  doc: replace "practise" with "practice" in Documentation
  befs: remove check for CONFIG_BEFS_RW
  scsi: doc: fix 'SCSI_NCR_SETUP_MASTER_PARITY'
  drivers/usb/phy/phy.c: remove a leading space
  mfd: fix comment
  cpuidle: fix comment
  doc: hpfall.c: fix missing null-terminate after strncpy call
  usb: doc: hotplug.txt code typos
  kbuild: fix comment in Makefile.modinst
  SH: add proper prompt to SH_MAGIC_PANEL_R2_VERSION
  ARM: msm: Remove MSM_SCM
  crypto: Remove MPILIB_EXTRA
  doc: CN: remove dead link, kerneltrap.org no longer works
  media: update reference, kerneltrap.org no longer works
  hexagon: update reference, kerneltrap.org no longer works
  doc: LSM: update reference, kerneltrap.org no longer works
  ...
2014-08-06 21:03:53 -07:00
Jeremiah Mahler 305af08c53 doc: replace "practise" with "practice" in Documentation
To keep the Documentation consistent either
"practise" or "practice" should be used.

Since there are 3 lines with "practise"

  ~/linux/Documentation$ grep -r practise * | wc -l
  3

and 108 lines with "practice"

  ~/linux/Documentation$ grep -r practice * | wc -l
  108

this patch converts "practise" to "practice".

Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-06-19 15:28:56 +02:00
Jacob Keller 8401aa1f59 Documentation/SubmittingPatches: describe the Fixes: tag
Update the SubmittingPatches process to include howto about the new
'Fixes:' tag to be used when a patch fixes an issue in a previous commit
(found by git-bisect for example).

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-06 16:08:11 -07:00
Mitchel Humpherys 37c703f40d Documentation/SubmittingPatches: update some dead URLs
The links to "The perfect patch" and "NO!!!! No more huge patch
bombs..." have gone stale. Update them to some working locations.

Signed-off-by: Mitchel Humpherys <mitchelh@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:27 -07:00
Josh Triplett 8e3072a23f SubmittingPatches: document the use of git
Most of the mechanical portions of SubmittingPatches exist to help patch
submitters replicate the output of git.  Mention this explicitly, both
as a reminder that git will help with this process, and as signposting
to let git users know what they can safely skip.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:06 -07:00
Josh Triplett 9547c706d2 SubmittingPatches: add recommendation for mailing list references
SubmittingPatches already mentions referencing bugs fixed by a commit,
but doesn't mention citing relevant mailing list discussions.  Add a
note to that effect, along with a recommendation to use the
https://lkml.kernel.org/ redirector.

Portions based on text from git's SubmittingPatches.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:06 -07:00
Josh Triplett 74a475acea SubmittingPatches: add style recommendation to use imperative descriptions
Most commit messages use this style, and the recommendation frequently
comes up in discussions (especially in response to patches that don't
use it), but that recommendation doesn't actually appear anywhere in
Documentation.  Add this style guideline to SubmittingPatches, using the
description from git's SubmittingPatches.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:06 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 0af5270324 Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Request summaries for commit references
Request inclusion of oneline summaries when referring to other commits

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-08-20 12:58:15 +02:00
Mugunthan V N 8543ae1296 checkpatch: add Suggested-by as a standard signature
As people started using Suggested-by as standard signature, adding
"Suggested-by" to the standard signature so that checkpatch won't
generate warning when Suggested-by is used in patch signature

Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29 18:28:20 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 755727b7fb Randy has moved
Update email address and CREDITS info.  xenotime.net is defunct.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
Cc: Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-03-08 15:05:34 -08:00
Michel Machado e52d2e1f25 Documentation/SubmittingPatches: suggested the use of scripts/get_maintainer.pl
Had I found a reference to scripts/get_maintainer.pl when I first read
Documentation/SubmittingPatches, it would've saved me some time.

Signed-off-by: Michel Machado <michel@digirati.com.br>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-05-25 16:18:30 +02:00
Zac Storer db12fb833a Documentation: fix spelling error in SubmittingPatches
Fixed a spelling error.

Signed-off-by: Zac Storer <zac.3.14159@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-13 18:34:02 -07:00
Vikram Narayanan f5039935ac Documentation: update GregKH links
Fixed the broken links in the SubmittingPatches file.

[ The old links turn out to not be broken after all, but the new links
  are certainly more readable - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Vikram Narayanan <vikram186@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-23 15:14:11 -07:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Randy Dunlap d89b1945b7 SubmittingPatches: add more about patch descriptions
Add more information about patch descriptions.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09 20:45:05 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 4932be7789 docs: update patch size in SubmittingPatches
This patch size comment is like so last millenium.  Update it to modern
times.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-01 16:11:12 -07:00