Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750875AbaLOU3m (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:29:42 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f49.google.com ([209.85.220.49]:34794 "EHLO mail-pa0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750723AbaLOU3k (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:29:40 -0500 Message-ID: <548F44B0.6020600@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:29:36 -0800 From: Frank Rowand Reply-To: frowand.list@gmail.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Corbet CC: LKML , Corey Minyard , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Docs: Modernize SubmittingPatches References: <20141215105251.16913f8c@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20141215105251.16913f8c@lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/15/2014 7:52 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > The SubmittingPatches file still shows a lot of its roots from the era when > we all sent stuff straight to Linus and hoped for the best. I've gone in > and thrashed it up to reflect an age where few of us type our own "diff" > commands anymore. Also added a section on preparing signed tags for pull > requests. > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet > --- > Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 433 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- > 1 file changed, 212 insertions(+), 221 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > index 1fa1caa198eb..787d0711e18a 100644 > --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > @@ -10,27 +10,48 @@ kernel, the process can sometimes be daunting if you're not familiar > with "the system." This text is a collection of suggestions which > can greatly increase the chances of your change being accepted. > > -Read Documentation/SubmitChecklist for a list of items to check > -before submitting code. If you are submitting a driver, also read > +This document contains a large number of suggestions in a relatively terse > +format. For detailed information on how the kernel development process > +works, see Documentation/development-process. Also, read > +Documentation/SubmitChecklist for a list of items to check before > +submitting code. If you are submitting a driver, also read > Documentation/SubmittingDrivers. If you are submitting a devicetree binding patch, also read Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.txt. < snip > -Frank -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/