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2014-06-06Documentation/SubmittingPatches: describe the Fixes: tagJacob Keller
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>
2014-04-03Documentation/SubmittingPatches: update some dead URLsMitchel Humpherys
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>
2014-04-03SubmittingPatches: document the use of gitJosh Triplett
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>
2014-04-03SubmittingPatches: add recommendation for mailing list referencesJosh Triplett
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>
2014-04-03SubmittingPatches: add style recommendation to use imperative descriptionsJosh Triplett
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>
2013-08-20Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Request summaries for commit referencesGeert Uytterhoeven
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>
2013-04-29checkpatch: add Suggested-by as a standard signatureMugunthan V N
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>
2013-03-08Randy has movedRandy Dunlap
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>
2012-05-25Documentation/SubmittingPatches: suggested the use of scripts/get_maintainer.plMichel Machado
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>
2011-08-13Documentation: fix spelling error in SubmittingPatchesZac Storer
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>
2011-05-23Documentation: update GregKH linksVikram Narayanan
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>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2010-08-09SubmittingPatches: add more about patch descriptionsRandy Dunlap
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>
2009-10-01docs: update patch size in SubmittingPatchesRandy Dunlap
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>
2009-09-21trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered stepMichael Brunner
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>
2009-06-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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. ...
2009-06-12trivial: remove the trivial patch monkey's name from SubmittingPatchesMarkus Heidelberg
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>
2009-06-12trivial: SubmittingPatches: fix typoPavel Machek
Fix typo. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-04Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary" to SubmittingPatchesTheodore Ts'o
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>
2009-06-04SubmittingPatches: fix typoPavel Machek
Fix typo. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-04Document Reported-by in SubmittingPatchesJonathan Corbet
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>
2008-10-16Merge branch 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* '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
2008-10-16SubmittingPatches: add a reference to Andi's OLS paperAndi Kleen
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>
2008-10-16Remove Andrew Morton's http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/FD Cami
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>
2008-10-16Add a reference to paper to SubmittingPatchesAndi Kleen
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>
2008-10-16doc: Test-by?Hidetoshi Seto
Commonly used is "Tested-by." Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-07-28SubmittingPatches: add git pull & diffstat format infoRandy Dunlap
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>
2008-06-05doc: add suggestions about good practises for maintainersWilly Tarreau
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>
2008-04-21Correct a few trivial tree details in Documentation/SubmittingPatchesJesper Juhl
Correct maintainer name and URL. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
2008-04-11Merge branch 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* '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
2008-04-02doc: fix typo in SubmittingPatchesJim Meyering
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>
2008-03-30Fill out information on patch tags in SubmittingPatchesJonathan Corbet
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>
2008-02-03Documentation: mention email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatchesMichael Opdenacker
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>
2007-10-30fix typo in SubmittingPatchesKeiichi Kii
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>
2007-09-11fix typo in Documentation/SubmittingPatchesAndre Haupt
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>
2007-08-22HOWTO: latest lxr url address changedQi Yong
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>
2007-07-22Documentation: Fix a mispelt "probably" in SubmittingPatches.Linus Nilsson
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>
2007-07-16update checkpatch.pl to version 0.07Andy Whitcroft
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>
2007-06-08document Acked-by:Andrew Morton
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>
2007-06-01add a trivial patch style checkerAndy Whitcroft
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>
2007-05-09doc: what a patch series isRandy Dunlap
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>
2007-01-23Change Linus' email address tooLinus Torvalds
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>
2006-09-29[PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patchesKirill Korotaev
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[PATCH] SubmittingPatches cleanupsPavel Machek
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>
2006-09-13[PATCH] We can not allow anonymous contributions to the kernelGreg KH
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>
2006-07-31[PATCH] Doc/SubmittingPatches cleanupsRandy Dunlap
A few cleanups to SubmittingPatches: - mention SubmitChecklist - remove mention of my simple patch script tools - remove last-updated line Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14[PATCH] docs: update some updated code docsXose Vazquez Perez
Based on comments from Randy Dunlap on my previous commit 5b0ed2c64d8fdafb5fcfb3baabdd288628b1ff9b Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] SubmittingPatches: diffstat optionsRandy Dunlap
Add desired 'diffstat' options to use for kernel patches. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] docs: updated some code docsXose Vazquez Perez
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-03Documentation/SubmittingPatches: update Trivial Patch Monkey informationKees Cook
While looking for where to send trivial patches, I found old contact information in Documentation/SubmittingPatches. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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