One more thing. Please, Not attach your patch but inline one. Many people want to add their comments to line-by-line. Tip - If you use gmail with web, your patch is mangled by web server. That will hurt maintainers. Documentation/email-clients.txt can help you. :) On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > GeunSik, > > On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, GeunSik Lim wrote: > >> Sorry, >> I mistake because I don't understand how to submit patch exactly. > > To submit a patch you need to have: > > 1) useful subject line > > [PATCH] subsystem: what does the patch do > > subsystem in your care is: ftrace > > 2) useful patch description > > explains what the patch does. Which bug/problem it fixes or which > enhancement it provides > > Look at the git log. Each commit has an (more or lesss) usefull > description, but you get the idea. If you see a confusing or > cryptic description you need way more time to figure out what the > patch does or what it is supposed to do. > > 3) Your Signed-off-by > > Signed-off-by is the certificate of origin as described in > > Documentation/SubmittingPatches > > You can only add your own Signed-off-by. You never can add the > Signed-off-by of some one else. > >> I just appended below "singned-off" contents for convenience. >> Sorry again. >> >> Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <leemgs1@xxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> > > That's how it might look later on. It would say: > > GeunSik Lim wrote the patch > Steven Rostedt picked it up from your mail and sent it to Ingo > Ingo Molnar received it from Steven's mail and applied it > > There is no way for you to forsee how your patch will be picked up and > propagated. It might go via Andrew Morton or directly to Linus. Ok ? > > So you only add your own Signed-off-by. > > Hope that helps. Thanks, > > tglx > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- Kinds regards, Minchan Kim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
