[...] > > An example pull request of mine might look like: > Char/Misc patches for 4.15-rc1 > > Here is the big char/misc patch set for the 4.15-rc1 merge > window. Contained in here is the normal set of new functions > added to all of these crazy drivers, as well as the following > brand new subsystems: > - time_travel_controller: Finally a set of drivers for > the latest time travel bus architecture that provides > i/o to the CPU before it asked for it, allowing > uninterrupted processing > - relativity_shifters: due to the affect that the > time_travel_controllers have on the overall system, > there was a need for a new set of relativity shifter > drivers to accommodate the newly formed black holes > that would threaten to suck CPUs into them. This > subsystem handles this in a way to successfully > neutralize the problems. There is a Kconfig option to > force these to be enabled when needed, so problems > should not occur. > > All of these patches have been successfully tested in the latest > linux-next releases, and the original problems that it found > have all been resolved (apologies to anyone living near Canberra > for the lack of the Kconfig options in the earlier versions of > the linux-next tree creations.) > > Signed-off-by: Your-name-here <your_email@domain> > > > The tag message format is just like a git commit id. One line at the > top for a "summary subject" and be sure to sign-off at the bottom. I don't add my s-o-b to signed tags for pull requests, but perhaps I should. However, I think most maintainers don't use it, and neither does it seems like Linus is preserving the tag when he does the pull. [...] Kind regards Uffe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
