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diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 4d1f41b84eb..6761a7b241a 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ not in any lower subdirectory. To create a patch for a single file, it is often sufficient to do: - SRCTREE= linux-2.4 + SRCTREE= linux-2.6 MYFILE= drivers/net/mydriver.c cd $SRCTREE @@ -48,17 +48,18 @@ To create a patch for multiple files, you should unpack a "vanilla", or unmodified kernel source tree, and generate a diff against your own source tree. For example: - MYSRC= /devel/linux-2.4 + MYSRC= /devel/linux-2.6 - tar xvfz linux-2.4.0-test11.tar.gz - mv linux linux-vanilla - wget http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/dontdiff - diff -uprN -X dontdiff linux-vanilla $MYSRC > /tmp/patch - rm -f dontdiff + tar xvfz linux-2.6.12.tar.gz + mv linux-2.6.12 linux-2.6.12-vanilla + diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.12-vanilla/Documentation/dontdiff \ + linux-2.6.12-vanilla $MYSRC > /tmp/patch "dontdiff" is a list of files which are generated by the kernel during the build process, and should be ignored in any diff(1)-generated -patch. dontdiff is maintained by Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com> +patch. The "dontdiff" file is included in the kernel tree in +2.6.12 and later. For earlier kernel versions, you can get it +from <http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/dontdiff>. Make sure your patch does not include any extra files which do not belong in a patch submission. Make sure to review your patch -after- @@ -66,18 +67,20 @@ generated it with diff(1), to ensure accuracy. If your changes produce a lot of deltas, you may want to look into splitting them into individual patches which modify things in -logical stages, this will facilitate easier reviewing by other +logical stages. This will facilitate easier reviewing by other kernel developers, very important if you want your patch accepted. -There are a number of scripts which can aid in this; +There are a number of scripts which can aid in this: Quilt: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt Randy Dunlap's patch scripts: -http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/scripts/patching-scripts.tgz +http://www.xenotime.net/linux/scripts/patching-scripts-002.tar.gz Andrew Morton's patch scripts: -http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/patch-scripts-0.16 +http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/patch-scripts-0.20 + + 2) Describe your changes. @@ -163,6 +166,8 @@ patches. Trivial patches must qualify for one of the following rules: since people copy, as long as it's trivial) Any fix by the author/maintainer of the file. (ie. patch monkey in re-transmission mode) +URL: <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/trivial/> + @@ -291,6 +296,17 @@ now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just point out some special detail about the sign-off. + +12) More references for submitting patches + +Andrew Morton, "The perfect patch" (tpp). + <http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt> + +Jeff Garzik, "Linux kernel patch submission format." + <http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html> + + + ----------------------------------- SECTION 2 - HINTS, TIPS, AND TRICKS ----------------------------------- @@ -359,7 +375,5 @@ and 'extern __inline__'. 4) Don't over-design. Don't try to anticipate nebulous future cases which may or may not -be useful: "Make it as simple as you can, and no simpler" - - +be useful: "Make it as simple as you can, and no simpler." |