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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> | 2008-08-05 10:00:02 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> | 2008-08-05 10:00:02 -0300 |
| commit | b9ae36cc08d88d25ef5326e857fbea45b7e36588 (patch) | |
| tree | a436b4abef1c2fdc40fc210c4273a9c8f8478bab /README.patches | |
| parent | 73f479f972cdc76dca93f2800aaffddc066b1487 (diff) | |
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Improve scripts to allow developers to add a hint about patch priority
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
After this patch, a new meta-tag will be added, to give a hint about the priority:
low - patches that add new drivers that aren't ready for kernel, but it would be
interesting to be at the main tree;
normal - Patches that will be merged on the next merge window;
high - Bug fixes
Priority: normal
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'README.patches')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.patches | 19 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/README.patches b/README.patches index 6551964fd..785a67819 100644 --- a/README.patches +++ b/README.patches @@ -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 @@ -160,10 +162,17 @@ 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 deprecated API's that are |