I misunderstood this section as simply asking me to add an email Cc, and
was unaware of the existence of Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
Hopefully this clarification will help save maintainers and new/rare
submitters time in the future.
Signed-off-by: Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Commit messages lines are sometimes overly long.
Suggest line wrapping at 75 columns so the default git commit log
indentation of 4 plus the commit message text still fits on an 80 column
screen.
Add a checkpatch test for long commit messages lines too.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ian Morris <ipm@chirality.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The Developers Certificate of Origin has a mixture of tabs and white
spaces which is annoying to view if your editor explicitly views white
space characters.
Also remove any trailing white spaces found in the file.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
SubmittingPatches was written in the "keep sending to Linus until something
shows up in a release" era. Given that we don't do things that way anymore
and the system is far less lossy, update this information and add some
hints on responding to reviewer comments.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
SubmittingPatches had two sections on selecting recipients; both were
showing their age. Unify them into a single section that more closely
reflects how we do things now.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Much of the information in SubmittingPatches shows its pre-git history.
Clean that up a bit and rephrase things with the assumption that developers
will be using git. Also rewrite the "pull requests" section and include
information on using signed tags.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This section was just a weird collection of stuff that is better found
elsewhere. The "coding style" section somewhat duplicated the previous
coding style section; the useful information there has been collected into
a single place.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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>
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>
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>
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
...
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
* '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
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
* '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
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>
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>
Luke Dashjr