Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268311AbUIWHsH (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 03:48:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268314AbUIWHsH (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 03:48:07 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:3251 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268311AbUIWHsE (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 03:48:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:46:46 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Horst von Brand Cc: miller@techsource.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, jeremy@sgi.com Subject: Re: [DOC] Linux kernel patch submission format Message-Id: <20040923004646.33c372f7.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200409221947.i8MJlnSX003715@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> References: <4151CBA2.1020005@techsource.com> <200409221947.i8MJlnSX003715@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 897 Lines: 22 > diff(1) does what you want... Not all he wanted. There's more to a patch than the diff. The following three documents explain how to submit patches to the Linux kernel: 1) Documentation/SubmittingPatches, a file in the kernel source 2) Andrew Morton's "The Perfect Patch", available at: http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt 3) Jeff Garzik's "Linux kernel patch submission format", at: http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373 - 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/