On 2011-07-14 at 04:36:19 +0200, Kevin McKinney <klmckinney1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Kernel developers. > > Please forgive me for bothering you with such trivial matters. My > name is Kevin McKinney and I am an aspiring kernel developer trying to > submit my first patch. However, I am unable to commit my changes to > git. Can someone give me a little guidance on submitting my patch? I > am following the article on > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/newbies-guide-hacking-linux-kernel. > The problem I am having is when I enter my comments, save, and exit > nano (my text editor), I receive a message that says my commit has > aborted because of empty comments. But I have indeed entered comments. > Any help would be appreciated. Can someone tell me what I am doing > wrong? > > # Staging: echo.c: Clean up code in echo.c driver based on checkpatch.pl > # Fix 6 warnings to export symbols under its function definition > # Fix 2 errors need consistent spacing around '*' > # > # Signed-off-by: Kevin L. McKinney <klmckinney1@xxxxxxxxx> If you're putting a '#' in front of a line in your commit message, git will treat it as a comment and it will not be considered part of your commit. HTH Tobias _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
