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Commit df24d9a6 authored by J. Bruce Fields's avatar J. Bruce Fields Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Documentation: prune redundant SubmitChecklist items 



Kernel style is mentioned twice, and the git apply trick is a bit redundant
given the checkpatch.pl recommendation (which also checks for bad
whitespace).

Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 064d9efe

Documentation/SubmitChecklist

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@@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ kernel patches. 
4: ppc64 is a good architecture for cross-compilation checking because it

   tends to use `unsigned long' for 64-bit quantities.



5: Matches kernel coding style(!)

5: Check your patch for general style as detailed in

   Documentation/CodingStyle.  Check for trivial violations with the

   patch style checker prior to submission (scripts/checkpatch.pl).

   You should be able to justify all violations that remain in

   your patch.



6: Any new or modified CONFIG options don't muck up the config menu.
@@ -79,13 +83,3 @@ kernel patches. 
23: Tested after it has been merged into the -mm patchset to make sure

    that it still works with all of the other queued patches and various

    changes in the VM, VFS, and other subsystems.
 


24: Avoid whitespace damage such as indenting with spaces or whitespace

    at the end of lines.  You can test this by feeding the patch to

    "git apply --check --whitespace=error-all"



25: Check your patch for general style as detailed in

    Documentation/CodingStyle.  Check for trivial violations with the

    patch style checker prior to submission (scripts/checkpatch.pl).

    You should be able to justify all violations that remain in

    your patch.