linux-toradex.git/Documentation/SubmittingPatches, branch v3.16-rc7

Documentation/SubmittingPatches: describe the Fixes: tag

2014-06-06T23:08:11+00:00

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 
Tested-by: Aaron Brown 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/SubmittingPatches: update some dead URLs

2014-04-03T23:21:27+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

SubmittingPatches: document the use of git

2014-04-03T23:21:06+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Rob Landley 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

SubmittingPatches: add recommendation for mailing list references

2014-04-03T23:21:06+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Rob Landley 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

SubmittingPatches: add style recommendation to use imperative descriptions

2014-04-03T23:21:06+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Rob Landley 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Request summaries for commit references

2013-08-20T10:58:15+00:00

Request inclusion of oneline summaries when referring to other commits

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

checkpatch: add Suggested-by as a standard signature

2013-04-30T01:28:20+00:00

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 
Cc: Andy Whitcroft 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Randy has moved

2013-03-08T23:05:34+00:00

Update email address and CREDITS info.  xenotime.net is defunct.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Harry Wei 
Cc: Keiichi KII 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/SubmittingPatches: suggested the use of scripts/get_maintainer.pl

2012-05-25T14:18:30+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Rob Landley 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Documentation: fix spelling error in SubmittingPatches

2011-08-14T01:34:02+00:00

Fixed a spelling error.

Signed-off-by: Zac Storer 
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds