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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> | 2007-07-30 12:15:47 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> | 2007-07-30 12:15:47 -0300 |
| commit | 85c51e753c39f725e39aad2eeb0d27abed0c0426 (patch) | |
| tree | 340f7bc1f9f645ae8303ef6d58a76ef65acfac02 /README.patches | |
| parent | e94249696bfda7993042980f7149c7de8fdbf344 (diff) | |
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Updates submission best practices
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
It is wise to send a patch to the low-level driver maintainer or to the
subsystem maintainer, c/c the mailing list. This is a common practice at
Linux community. Otherwise, it risks that the patch may stay forever at
the mailing lists.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'README.patches')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.patches | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/README.patches b/README.patches index 41b237476..87fe57be6 100644 --- a/README.patches +++ b/README.patches @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ j) By submitting a patch to the subsystem maintainer, either via email assumed as GPLv2 only. 5. Knowing about newer patches committed at master hg repository - ============================================================ + ============================================================= There's a patchbomb script at linuxtv.org that will send one copy of each patch applied to -hg tree to: @@ -409,10 +409,13 @@ e. People will eventually comment about the patch. In this case, f. If the patch is fixing an existing maintained driver, the low-level driver maintainer will apply to his tree, and at some later - time, ask the subsystem maintainer to pull it. + time, ask the subsystem maintainer to pull it. It is a good idea to + send the patch to the maintainer C/C the mailing list for him to know + that you're expecting him to forward the patch. g. If it is a newer driver (not yet in one of the development trees), - please copy the subsystem maintainer. + please send the patch to the subsystem maintainer, C/C the proper + mailing lists. 8. Identifying regressions with Mercurial ====================================== |