Hi Tobias, On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Tobias Klauser <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Thanks, that was the problem!!! - Kevin > HTH > Tobias _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
