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Commit 84da7c08 authored by Randy Dunlap's avatar Randy Dunlap Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] Doc/Submitting: corrections, additions 



Corrections to Documentation/Submitting{Drivers,Patches}
- update LANANA info.
- fix some typos
- update 2.2 kernel maintainer info.
- update 'dontdiff' info.
- update URLs for patch scripts
- add Trivial Patch Monkey URL
- add more references for submitting patches

Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 6623e620

Documentation/SubmittingDrivers

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@@ -13,13 +13,14 @@ Allocating Device Numbers 
-------------------------



Major and minor numbers for block and character devices are allocated

by the Linux assigned name and number authority (currently better

known as H Peter Anvin). The site is http://www.lanana.org/. This

by the Linux assigned name and number authority (currently this is

Torben Mathiasen). The site is http://www.lanana.org/. This

also deals with allocating numbers for devices that are not going to

be submitted to the mainstream kernel.

See Documentation/devices.txt for more information on this.



If you don't use assigned numbers then when you device is submitted it will

get given an assigned number even if that is different from values you may

If you don't use assigned numbers then when your device is submitted it will

be given an assigned number even if that is different from values you may

have shipped to customers before.



Who To Submit Drivers To
@@ -32,7 +33,8 @@ Linux 2.2: 
	If the code area has a general maintainer then please submit it to

	the maintainer listed in MAINTAINERS in the kernel file. If the

	maintainer does not respond or you cannot find the appropriate

	maintainer then please contact Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

	maintainer then please contact the 2.2 kernel maintainer:

	Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>.



Linux 2.4:

	The same rules apply as 2.2. The final contact point for Linux 2.4
@@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ What Criteria Determine Acceptance 


Licensing:	The code must be released to us under the

		GNU General Public License. We don't insist on any kind

		of exclusively GPL licensing, and if you wish the driver

		of exclusive GPL licensing, and if you wish the driver

		to be useful to other communities such as BSD you may well

		wish to release under multiple licenses.

Documentation/SubmittingPatches

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@@ -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."