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diff --git a/README.patches b/README.patches index 3ee55ff29..882482223 100644 --- a/README.patches +++ b/README.patches @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at infradead dot org> - Updated on 2008 February, 14 + Updated on 2008 June, 29 This file describes the general procedures used by the LinuxTV team (*) and by the v4l-dvb community. @@ -281,8 +281,10 @@ j) Sometimes it is necessary to introduce some testing code inside a To allow compatibility tests, linux/version.h is automatically included by the building system. This allows adding tests like: - #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,5,0) - #include <linux/kthread.h> + #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 16) + #include <linux/mutex.h> + #else + #include <asm/semaphore.h> #endif It should be noticed, however, that an explicit inclusion of @@ -356,6 +358,16 @@ m) "Commit earlier and commit often". This is a common used rule at changeset should ideally address just one issue. So, mixing different things at the same patch should be avoided. +n) Sometimes, the maintainer may need to slightly modify patches you receive + in order to merge them, because the code is not exactly the same in your + tree and the submitters'. In order to save time, it may do the changes and + add a line before his SOB, as stated on Documentation/SubmittingPatches, + describing what he did to merge it. Something like: + + Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org> + [lucky@maintainer.example.org: struct foo moved from foo.c to foo.h] + Signed-off-by: Lucky K Maintainer <lucky@maintainer.example.org> + 5. Knowing about newer patches committed at master hg repository ============================================================= |