On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 07:25:50PM +0100, Mariano Guerra wrote: > hi, > > I'm following the tutorial here: > https://github.com/gregkh/kernel-tutorial/blob/master/lxf_article/write_kernel_patch.txt > > and I have some questions before sending my first patches: > > * I read on another mail on this list that I should write the patches > agains linux-next repository, is that right? Yes. > * I tried sending the patches before (agains linux-2.6) configuring > git send-email to use gmail and gmail disabled my account saying that > there was "suspicious activity", then I tried using a local sendmail > and it bounced saying that it looked like spam or something like that. > my question is, can you recommend me a smtp server to use or some way > to send it using my gmail account? There is a tutorial online somewhere that shows how to use gmail with git send-email, did you try that? And are you sure you are sending with the right email address? That is one reason why gmail might not let you do this. > now the more technical ones: > > * I'm trying to fix the warnings/erros from this file: > drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_cs.c I have to add KERN_* > facility to some printk calls, should I use INFO or DEBUG? how do I > know when to use which? I used KERN_INFO for my patches, but I'm not > shure It depends on what is being printed out. > * the tools shows this error: > > drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_cs.c:261: ERROR: do not > initialise statics to 0 or NULL > > which is the standard way to initialize statics? Don't initialize them at all as they are initialized to 0 by default by the loader/linker/compiler. hope this helps, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
