29 Oct, 2014
1 commit
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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
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
08 Sep, 2014
1 commit
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new link for - How to piss off a Linux kernel subsystem maintainer
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Aug, 2014
1 commit
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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
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Aug, 2014
1 commit
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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
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19 Jun, 2014
1 commit
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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
3and 108 lines with "practice"
~/linux/Documentation$ grep -r practice * | wc -l
108this patch converts "practise" to "practice".
Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
07 Jun, 2014
1 commit
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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
04 Apr, 2014
4 commits
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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 -
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
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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
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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
20 Aug, 2013
1 commit
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Request inclusion of oneline summaries when referring to other commits
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
30 Apr, 2013
1 commit
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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 signatureSigned-off-by: Mugunthan V N
Cc: Andy Whitcroft
Cc: Joe Perches
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Mar, 2013
1 commit
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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
25 May, 2012
1 commit
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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
14 Aug, 2011
1 commit
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Fixed a spelling error.
Signed-off-by: Zac Storer
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 May, 2011
1 commit
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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
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
31 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi
10 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Add more information about patch descriptions.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
02 Oct, 2009
1 commit
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This patch size comment is like so last millenium. Update it to modern
times.Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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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
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
15 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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* '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.
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13 Jun, 2009
2 commits
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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
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Fix typo.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
05 Jun, 2009
3 commits
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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"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Fix typo.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek
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Randy pointed out that the Reported-By tag should be documented with the
others in SubmittingPatches.Reported-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
17 Oct, 2008
5 commits
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* '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
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
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/SubmittingPatchesSigned-off-by: Francois Cami
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
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
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Commonly used is "Tested-by."
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
28 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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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
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
06 Jun, 2008
1 commit
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Suggest how to deal with patch modifications caused by
merging or back-porting when you're a maintainer.Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Apr, 2008
1 commit
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Correct maintainer name and URL.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl
12 Apr, 2008
1 commit
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* '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
03 Apr, 2008
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
31 Mar, 2008
1 commit
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Add more information about the various patch tags in use, and try to
establish a meaning for Reviewed-by:Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
04 Feb, 2008
1 commit
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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 needsThis 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
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
31 Oct, 2007
1 commit
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Fix typo.
Signed-off-by: Keiichi Kii
Cc: Andy Whitcroft
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
12 Sep, 2007
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Andre Haupt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
