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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
Michael Brunner
8103b5cc62 trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step
This patch fixes a reference to step "Select e-mail destination." which
has been renumbered from 4) to 5) in linux-2.6.22.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brunner <mibru@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21 15:14:57 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
489f7ab6c1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (31 commits)
  trivial: remove the trivial patch monkey's name from SubmittingPatches
  trivial: Fix a typo in comment of addrconf_dad_start()
  trivial: usb: fix missing space typo in doc
  trivial: pci hotplug: adding __init/__exit macros to sgi_hotplug
  trivial: Remove the hyphen from git commands
  trivial: fix ETIMEOUT -> ETIMEDOUT typos
  trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module names
  trivial: SubmittingPatches: fix typo
  trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos
  trivial: Fix Pavel's address in MAINTAINERS
  trivial: ftrace:fix description of trace directory
  trivial: unnecessary (void*) cast removal in sound/oss/msnd.c
  trivial: input/misc: Fix typo in Kconfig
  trivial: fix grammo in bus_for_each_dev() kerneldoc
  trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code
  trivial: spelling fix in ppc code comments
  trivial: fix typo in bio_alloc kernel doc
  trivial: Documentation/rbtree.txt: cleanup kerneldoc of rbtree.txt
  trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
  trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments.
  ...
2009-06-14 13:46:25 -07:00
Markus Heidelberg
82d27b2b2f trivial: remove the trivial patch monkey's name from SubmittingPatches
It is outdated here and can be found in the MAINTAINERS file. Also
remove the URL of the previous maintainer, similar content can be found
in the SubmittingPatches file.

Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:51 +02:00
Pavel Machek
3226224039 trivial: SubmittingPatches: fix typo
Fix typo.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:50 +02:00
Theodore Ts'o
2ae19acaa5 Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary" to SubmittingPatches
Unfortunately many patch submissions are arriving with painfully poor
patch descriptions.   As a result of the discussion on LKML:

      http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/15/296

explain how to submit a better patch description, in the (perhaps
vain) hope that maintainers won't end up having to rewrite the git
commit logs as often as they do today.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-04 10:34:33 -06:00
Pavel Machek
5801da1b2f SubmittingPatches: fix typo
Fix typo.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-04 10:33:24 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
bbb0a4247a Document Reported-by in SubmittingPatches
Randy pointed out that the Reported-By tag should be documented with the
others in SubmittingPatches.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-04 10:32:49 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
d1b5726358 Merge branch 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  Document panic_on_unrecovered_nmi sysctl
  Add a reference to paper to SubmittingPatches
  Add kerneldoc documentation for new printk format extensions
  Remove videobook.tmpl
  doc: Test-by?
  Add the development process document
  Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt: Fix section numbers
2008-10-16 12:18:16 -07:00
Andi Kleen
9536727ef6 SubmittingPatches: add a reference to Andi's OLS paper
For this year's OLS I wrote a paper on successfull strategies to submit
difficult kernel patches.  Add a reference to it to SubmittingPatches.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
FD Cami
2223c65103 Remove Andrew Morton's http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/
Remove Andrew Morton's http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/ urls, update to new
ones when necessary, delete references otherwise.

There are still instances of that living in:
Documentation/zh_CN/HOWTO
Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingPatches
Documentation/ko_KR/HOWTO
Documentation/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches

Signed-off-by: Francois Cami <francois.cami@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
Andi Kleen
12caa1b6fc Add a reference to paper to SubmittingPatches
Add a reference to paper to SubmittingPatches

For this year's OLS I wrote a paper on successfull strategies
to submit difficult kernel patches. Add a reference to it to
SubmittingPatches.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16 12:14:27 -06:00
Hidetoshi Seto
58bae1f5cf doc: Test-by?
Commonly used is "Tested-by."

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16 11:51:30 -06:00
Randy Dunlap
1486361777 SubmittingPatches: add git pull & diffstat format info
Add git pull command info and diffstat summary info so that we don't
have to search email archives for it repeatedly.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 08:31:58 -07:00
Willy Tarreau
adbd5886da doc: add suggestions about good practises for maintainers
Suggest how to deal with patch modifications caused by
merging or back-porting when you're a maintainer.

Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-05 14:25:24 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
1fb7c6e4cb Correct a few trivial tree details in Documentation/SubmittingPatches
Correct maintainer name and URL.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
2008-04-21 22:12:32 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
14897e35fd Merge branch 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  Add additional examples in Documentation/spinlocks.txt
  Move sched-rt-group.txt to scheduler/
  Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/
  Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/
  Spell out behavior of atomic_dec_and_lock() in kerneldoc
  Fix a typo in highres.txt
  Fixes to the seq_file document
  Fill out information on patch tags in SubmittingPatches
  Add the seq_file documentation
2008-04-11 13:24:16 -07:00
Jim Meyering
f2b2ea692e doc: fix typo in SubmittingPatches
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-02 15:28:19 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet
ef40203a09 Fill out information on patch tags in SubmittingPatches
Add more information about the various patch tags in use, and try to
establish a meaning for Reviewed-by:

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-03-30 11:05:04 -06:00
Michael Opdenacker
097091c0a8 Documentation: mention email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches
I was struggling to get my email-client no to mangle my patch files,
and I didn't find enough information in the SubmittingPatches file.
By looking for more information on the web, I eventually found the
email-clients.txt file, and it answered all my needs

This patch adds a reference to email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches,
and Mozilla related information which is no longer accurate
(as opposed to the details found in email-clients.txt).

This should be helpful for people sending their first patches,
or not sending patches on a frequent basis.

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 18:06:58 +02:00
Keiichi Kii
5ab3bd5785 fix typo in SubmittingPatches
Fix typo.

Signed-off-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-30 21:52:33 -07:00
Andre Haupt
a570ab6f10 fix typo in Documentation/SubmittingPatches
Signed-off-by: Andre Haupt <andre@finow14.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-11 17:21:20 -07:00
Qi Yong
4db29c1764 HOWTO: latest lxr url address changed
Hello,

I've noticed that in Document/HOWTO the url address:
http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/
has changed to
http://users.sosdg.org/~qiyong/lxr/
from the website.

	-- qiyong

Signed-off-by: Qi Yong <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-08-22 14:35:35 -07:00
Linus Nilsson
f56d35e7aa Documentation: Fix a mispelt "probably" in SubmittingPatches.
Fix a typo in SubmittingPatches where "probably" was spelt "probabally".

Signed-off-by: Linus Nilsson <lajnold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-22 11:49:53 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
de7d4f0e11 update checkpatch.pl to version 0.07
This version brings a number of new checks, fixes for flase
positives, plus a clarification of the output to better guide use.  Of
note:

  - checks for documentation for new __setup calls
  - clearer reporting where braces and parenthesis are involved
  - reports for closing brace and semi-colon spacing
  - reports on unwanted externs

This patch includes an update to the documentation on checkpatch.pl
itself to clarify when it should be used and to indicate that it
is not intended as the final arbitor of style.

Full changelog:

Andy Whitcroft (19):
      Version: 0.07
      ensure we do not apply control brace checks to preprocesor directives
      add {u,s}{8,16,32,64} to the type matcher
      accept lack of spacing after the semicolons in for (;;)
      report new externs in .c files
      fix up typedef exclusion for function prototypes
      else trailing statements check need to account for \ at end of line
      add enums to the type matcher
      add missing check descriptions
      suppress double reporting of ** spacing
      report on do{ spacing issues
      include an example of the brace/parenthesis in output
      check for spacing after closing braces
      prevent double reports on pointer spacing issues
      handle blank continuation lines on macros
      classify all reports error, warning, or check
      revamp hanging { checks and apply in context
      no spaces after the last ; in a for is ok
      check __setup has a corresponding addition to documentation

David Woodhouse (1):
      limit character set used in patches and descriptions to UTF-8

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:34 -07:00
Andrew Morton
0f44cd23a5 document Acked-by:
Explain what we use Acked-by: for, and how it differs from Signed-off-by:

Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-08 17:23:32 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
0a920b5b66 add a trivial patch style checker
We are seeing increasing levels of minor patch style violations in submissions
to the mailing lists as well as making it into the tree.  These detract from
the quality of the submission and cause unnessary work for reviewers.

As a first step package up the current state of the patch style checker and
include it in the kernel tree.  Add instructions suggesting running it on
submissions.  This adds version v0.01 of the checkpatch.pl script.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-01 08:18:28 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
66effdc6a6 doc: what a patch series is
It seems that we need to clarify that a patch series is a series of related
patches rather than "here are some of my patches as multiple (numbered)
emails."

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>
2007-05-09 12:30:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
99ddcc7edb Change Linus' email address too
This changes a few mentions of my email address to point to the new one,
leaving things like old copyright messages alone.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-23 14:22:35 -08:00
Kirill Korotaev
683e91cbd0 [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patches
Add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patches and explain how to
fix mozilla.  Thunderbird has the similar options.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:25 -07:00
Pavel Machek
8e9cb8fdab [PATCH] SubmittingPatches cleanups
This cleans up SubmittingPatches a bit.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:23 -07:00
Greg KH
af45f32d25 [PATCH] We can not allow anonymous contributions to the kernel
The DCO does not mean anything if we allow anonymous contributors to the
kernel.  As this is an open source project, we need to do everything in the
open.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-13 07:32:14 -07:00