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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmitChecklist | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/development-process/2.Process | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/development-process/7.AdvancedTopics | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c | 2 |
6 files changed, 35 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl index 133cd6c3f3c..020ac80d468 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ static void board_hwcontrol(struct mtd_info *mtd, int cmd) information about the device. </para> <programlisting> -int __init board_init (void) +static int __init board_init (void) { struct nand_chip *this; int err = 0; diff --git a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist index 8916ca48bc9..da0382daa39 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist +++ b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ kernel patches. 2b: Passes allnoconfig, allmodconfig +2c: Builds successfully when using O=builddir + 3: Builds on multiple CPU architectures by using local cross-compile tools or some other build farm. @@ -95,3 +97,13 @@ kernel patches. 25: If any ioctl's are added by the patch, then also update Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt. + +26: If your modified source code depends on or uses any of the kernel + APIs or features that are related to the following kconfig symbols, + then test multiple builds with the related kconfig symbols disabled + and/or =m (if that option is available) [not all of these at the + same time, just various/random combinations of them]: + + CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_SYSFS, CONFIG_PROC_FS, CONFIG_INPUT, CONFIG_PCI, + CONFIG_BLOCK, CONFIG_PM, CONFIG_HOTPLUG, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ, + CONFIG_NET, CONFIG_INET=n (but latter with CONFIG_NET=y) diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/2.Process b/Documentation/development-process/2.Process index d750321acd5..97726eba610 100644 --- a/Documentation/development-process/2.Process +++ b/Documentation/development-process/2.Process @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ The stages that a patch goes through are, generally: well. - Wider review. When the patch is getting close to ready for mainline - inclusion, it will be accepted by a relevant subsystem maintainer - + inclusion, it should be accepted by a relevant subsystem maintainer - though this acceptance is not a guarantee that the patch will make it all the way to the mainline. The patch will show up in the maintainer's subsystem tree and into the staging trees (described below). When the @@ -159,6 +159,15 @@ The stages that a patch goes through are, generally: the discovery of any problems resulting from the integration of this patch with work being done by others. +- Please note that most maintainers also have day jobs, so merging + your patch may not be their highest priority. If your patch is + getting feedback about changes that are needed, you should either + make those changes or justify why they should not be made. If your + patch has no review complaints but is not being merged by its + appropriate subsystem or driver maintainer, you should be persistent + in updating the patch to the current kernel so that it applies cleanly + and keep sending it for review and merging. + - Merging into the mainline. Eventually, a successful patch will be merged into the mainline repository managed by Linus Torvalds. More comments and/or problems may surface at this time; it is important that @@ -258,12 +267,8 @@ an appropriate subsystem tree or be sent directly to Linus. In a typical development cycle, approximately 10% of the patches going into the mainline get there via -mm. -The current -mm patch can always be found from the front page of - - http://kernel.org/ - -Those who want to see the current state of -mm can get the "-mm of the -moment" tree, found at: +The current -mm patch is available in the "mmotm" (-mm of the moment) +directory at: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ @@ -298,6 +303,12 @@ volatility of linux-next tends to make it a difficult development target. See http://lwn.net/Articles/289013/ for more information on this topic, and stay tuned; much is still in flux where linux-next is involved. +Besides the mmotm and linux-next trees, the kernel source tree now contains +the drivers/staging/ directory and many sub-directories for drivers or +filesystems that are on their way to being added to the kernel tree +proper, but they remain in drivers/staging/ while they still need more +work. + 2.5: TOOLS @@ -319,9 +330,9 @@ developers; even if they do not use it for their own work, they'll need git to keep up with what other developers (and the mainline) are doing. Git is now packaged by almost all Linux distributions. There is a home -page at +page at: - http://git.or.cz/ + http://git-scm.com/ That page has pointers to documentation and tutorials. One should be aware, in particular, of the Kernel Hacker's Guide to git, which has diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/7.AdvancedTopics b/Documentation/development-process/7.AdvancedTopics index a2cf74093aa..837179447e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/development-process/7.AdvancedTopics +++ b/Documentation/development-process/7.AdvancedTopics @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ long document in its own right. Instead, the focus here will be on how git fits into the kernel development process in particular. Developers who wish to come up to speed with git will find more information at: - http://git.or.cz/ + http://git-scm.com/ http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html diff --git a/Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c b/Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c index f9ce2d9fdfd..4bfafb7bc4c 100644 --- a/Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c +++ b/Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c @@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <signal.h> -#include <fcntl.h> #include <errno.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <linux/hpet.h> @@ -24,7 +23,6 @@ extern void hpet_read(int, const char **); #include <sys/poll.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> -#include <signal.h> struct hpet_command { char *command; diff --git a/Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c b/Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c index 9969c7d9f98..eda1a6d3578 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c +++ b/Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ #define PROTECTION (PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) #ifndef MAP_HUGETLB -#define MAP_HUGETLB 0x40 +#define MAP_HUGETLB 0x40000 /* arch specific */ #endif /* Only ia64 requires this */ |
