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Randy Dunlap
b5247c854e Documentation/SubmitChecklist: add rule #1
Add header file requirements.  Compliments of Stephen Rothwell.

Stephen calls this Rule #1, so I put it there, but I didn't want to demote
any of the others in the list, so I made one of them number 2b.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
7de3369c14 doc: SubmitChecklist, add ioctls, remove OSDL reference
If a patch adds ioctls, then Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt
should also be updated.

Remove reference to the OSDL PLM build farm.

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>
2009-12-16 07:20:06 -08:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
90c699a9ee block: rename CONFIG_LBD to CONFIG_LBDAF
Follow-up to "block: enable by default support for large devices
and files on 32-bit archs".

Rename CONFIG_LBD to CONFIG_LBDAF to:
- allow update of existing [def]configs for "default y" change
- reflect that it is used also for large files support nowadays

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-19 08:08:50 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
8033fe65a6 documentation: explain memory barriers
We want all uses of memory barriers to be explained in the source code.

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>
2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
Michael Kerrisk
1d992ce905 SubmitChecklist: interfaces changes should CC linux-api@
Mention that patches that change the kernel-userland interface should
be CCed to the new list linux-api@vger.kernel.org.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-03 18:22:18 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
df24d9a6a9 Documentation: prune redundant SubmitChecklist items
Kernel style is mentioned twice, and the git apply trick is a bit redundant
given the checkpatch.pl recommendation (which also checks for bad
whitespace).

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13 16:21:18 -08:00
James Bowes
80abe55b53 Documentation: Fix typo in SubmitChecklist.
Signed-off-by: James Bowes <jbowes@dangerouslyinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 03:13:09 +02:00
Jesper Juhl
8b7ecb113e SubmitChecklist update, fix spelling error
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:46 -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
Andrew Morton
9809169665 SubmitChecklist: add -W help
Help people to work out how to use `gcc -W'.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-11 08:29:35 -07:00
Roland Dreier
4d35563299 Add info about whitespace to SubmitChecklist
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:49 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
244474b216 [PATCH] add -mm testing in SubmitChecklist
Add -mm testing to SubmitChecklist.

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>
2007-03-01 14:53:37 -08:00
Andrew Morton
a517b9f9fe [PATCH] SubmitChecklist update
Sing the praises of `gcc -W'.  Would have prevented that blockdev direct-IO
bug.

Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-23 07:52:06 -08:00
Andrew Morton
0dd4e5b8e1 [PATCH] submit checklist update
Mention the new fault-injection test framework.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 09:55:40 -08:00
Andrew Morton
ce584f9138 [PATCH] submit checklist: mention headers_check
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
1a036cdd95 [PATCH] Mention Documenation/ABI/ requirements in Documentation/SubmitChecklist
Mention Documenation/ABI/ requirements in Documentation/SubmitChecklist.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:23 -07:00
Andrew Morton
e54695a59c [PATCH] checklist update
Update Documentation/SubmitChecklist.

- Mention lockdep coverage

- Describe documentation requirements

- Number the various items to simplify the composition of caustic emails.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:27 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
915a56d239 [PATCH] add Doc/SubmitChecklist
Provide a checklist of techniques to aid kernel patch submitters in
producing healthy patches and in lessening a burden on maintainers.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:43:07 -07:00