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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>2008-08-22 10:34:29 -0300
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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at infradead dot org>
- Updated on 2008 June, 29
+ Updated on 2008 August, 5
This file describes the general procedures used by the LinuxTV team (*)
and by the v4l-dvb community.
@@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ b) All commits at mercurial trees should have a consistent message,
This "patch" does nothing.
+ Priority: normal
+
Signed-off-by: nowhere <nowhere@noplace.org>
All lines starting with # and all lines starting with HG: will be
@@ -160,13 +162,20 @@ b) All commits at mercurial trees should have a consistent message,
From: line shouldn't be omitted, since it will be used for the
patch author when converting to -git.
-c) Since June, 1st, 2007, all patches are requested to have their coding style
- validated by using script/checkpatch.pl. This check runs automatically by
- using "make commit". By default, it will try to use the newest version of
- the script, between the kernel one and a copy at v4l-dvb development tree.
+ Priority: meta-tag will be used as a hint to the subsystem maintainer, to help him to
+ identify if the patch is an improvement or board addition ("normal"), that will follow
+ the normal lifecycle of a patch (e.g. will be sent upstream on the next merge tree), if
+ the patch is a bug fix tree for a while without merging upstream ("low").
+
+ Valid values for "Priority:" are "low", "normal" and "high".
+
+c) All patches are requested to have their coding style validated by using
+ script/checkpatch.pl. This check runs automatically by using "make commit". By default,
+ it will try to use the newest version of the script, between the kernel one and a copy
+ at v4l-dvb development tree.
It is always a good idea to use in-kernel version, since additional tests
- are performed (like checking for the usage of depreciated API's that are
+ are performed (like checking for the usage of deprecated API's that are
about to be removed).
It is possible to override the in-kernel checkpatch.pl location, by using