with "the system." This text is a collection of suggestions which
can greatly increase the chances of your change being accepted.
-If you are submitting a driver, also read Documentation/SubmittingDrivers.
+Read Documentation/SubmitChecklist for a list of items to check
+before submitting code. If you are submitting a driver, also read
+Documentation/SubmittingDrivers.
Quilt:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt
-Randy Dunlap's patch scripts:
-http://www.xenotime.net/linux/scripts/patching-scripts-002.tar.gz
-
Andrew Morton's patch scripts:
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/
Instead of these scripts, quilt is the recommended patch management
Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>
+using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)
+
Some people also put extra tags at the end. They'll just be ignored for
now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just
point out some special detail about the sign-off.
and deleted lines per file. A diffstat is especially useful on bigger
patches. Other comments relevant only to the moment or the maintainer,
not suitable for the permanent changelog, should also go here.
+Use diffstat options "-p 1 -w 70" so that filenames are listed from the
+top of the kernel source tree and don't use too much horizontal space
+(easily fit in 80 columns, maybe with some indentation).
See more details on the proper patch format in the following
references.
Jeff Garzik, "Linux kernel patch submission format."
<http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html>
-Greg Kroah, "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/>
+ <http://www.kroah.com/log/2006/01/11/>
-NO!!!! No more huge patch bombs to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org people!.
+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
Linus Torvald's mail on the canonical patch format:
<http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/7/183>
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-Last updated on 17 Nov 2005.