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| author | Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> | 2006-09-29 02:01:29 -0700 | 
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-29 09:18:23 -0700 | 
| commit | 8e9cb8fdab0709c508cd9689bee6916a270191cc (patch) | |
| tree | b7471650ba29b342c2cae805187534b6969d1283 /Documentation/SubmittingPatches | |
| parent | 1497b2749babb01458a6d9dfd4dfb493b3d388f2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-8e9cb8fdab0709c508cd9689bee6916a270191cc.tar.bz2 | |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/SubmittingPatches')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 26 | 
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
| diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index d42ab4c9e893..958182f6aa1f 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -173,15 +173,15 @@ For small patches you may want to CC the Trivial Patch Monkey  trivial@kernel.org managed by Adrian Bunk; which collects "trivial"  patches. Trivial patches must qualify for one of the following rules:   Spelling fixes in documentation - Spelling fixes which could break grep(1). + Spelling fixes which could break grep(1)   Warning fixes (cluttering with useless warnings is bad)   Compilation fixes (only if they are actually correct)   Runtime fixes (only if they actually fix things) - Removing use of deprecated functions/macros (eg. check_region). + Removing use of deprecated functions/macros (eg. check_region)   Contact detail and documentation fixes   Non-portable code replaced by portable code (even in arch-specific,   since people copy, as long as it's trivial) - Any fix by the author/maintainer of the file. (ie. patch monkey + Any fix by the author/maintainer of the file (ie. patch monkey   in re-transmission mode)  URL: <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bunk/trivial/> @@ -245,13 +245,13 @@ updated change.  It is quite common for Linus to "drop" your patch without comment.  That's the nature of the system.  If he drops your patch, it could be  due to -* Your patch did not apply cleanly to the latest kernel version +* Your patch did not apply cleanly to the latest kernel version.  * Your patch was not sufficiently discussed on linux-kernel. -* A style issue (see section 2), -* An e-mail formatting issue (re-read this section) -* A technical problem with your change -* He gets tons of e-mail, and yours got lost in the shuffle -* You are being annoying (See Figure 1) +* A style issue (see section 2). +* An e-mail formatting issue (re-read this section). +* A technical problem with your change. +* He gets tons of e-mail, and yours got lost in the shuffle. +* You are being annoying.  When in doubt, solicit comments on linux-kernel mailing list. @@ -476,10 +476,10 @@ SECTION 3 - REFERENCES  Andrew Morton, "The perfect patch" (tpp).    <http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt> -Jeff Garzik, "Linux kernel patch submission format." +Jeff Garzik, "Linux kernel patch submission format".    <http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html> -Greg Kroah-Hartman "How to piss off a kernel subsystem maintainer". +Greg Kroah-Hartman, "How to piss off a kernel subsystem maintainer".    <http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/03/31/>    <http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/07/08/>    <http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/10/19/> @@ -488,9 +488,9 @@ Greg Kroah-Hartman "How to piss off a kernel subsystem maintainer".  NO!!!! No more huge patch bombs to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org people!    <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112112749912944&w=2> -Kernel Documentation/CodingStyle +Kernel Documentation/CodingStyle:    <http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/source/Documentation/CodingStyle> -Linus Torvald's mail on the canonical patch format: +Linus Torvalds's mail on the canonical patch format:    <http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/7/183>  -- |