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This cleans up SubmittingPatches a bit. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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@@ -173,15 +173,15 @@ For small patches you may want to CC the Trivial Patch Monkey | |
[email protected] 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/> | ||
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@@ -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. | ||
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When in doubt, solicit comments on linux-kernel mailing list. | ||
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@@ -476,10 +476,10 @@ SECTION 3 - REFERENCES | |
Andrew Morton, "The perfect patch" (tpp). | ||
<http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt> | ||
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Jeff Garzik, "Linux kernel patch submission format." | ||
Jeff Garzik, "Linux kernel patch submission format". | ||
<http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html> | ||
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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/> | ||
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@@ -488,9 +488,9 @@ Greg Kroah-Hartman "How to piss off a kernel subsystem maintainer". | |
NO!!!! No more huge patch bombs to [email protected] people! | ||
<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112112749912944&w=2> | ||
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Kernel Documentation/CodingStyle | ||
Kernel Documentation/CodingStyle: | ||
<http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/source/Documentation/CodingStyle> | ||
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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> | ||
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