David, On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 04:26:45AM -0500, David Kremer wrote: > Hello, > > cheers everyone. Thank you for your lm-sensor programs. > > I asked recently in a thread if you support a LTS version for the kernel > 3.0, and I had a positive answer. Nevertheless, things are not quite > clear for me, and it seems your website is lacking of informations on > how to contribute. > ... and now things get confusing. Earlier we talked about kernel development, now your headline says "lm-sensors". Are you talking about the lm-sensors package, or are you talking about the kernel hwmon subsystem ? Both are completely different (though one uses the other), and managed differently. Specifically, it is up to a distribution maintainer to decide if a new version of lm-sensors should be included, if any bug fixes should be included, etc, while it is largely up to kernel maintainers to maintain kernel subsystems. > Guenter uses a git repository, not sure how it interacts with the main > kernel tree. > I have several git repositories on github, plus one on kernel.org. > I would be glad to have a clear explanation of where are the > repositories for the > different parts of lm-sensors and the development routines you all follow. > What "parts" do you refer to ? Again, do you refer to lm-sensors or to the hwmon subsystem ? I have two kernel repositories, one on kernel.org, one on github. The latter is a shadow of the first. The repository on kernel.org is used to send pull requests upstream, and to serve as feed for the -next tree. There are three branches: hwmon, for bug fixes hwmon-next, for patches queued up for the next version hwmon-staging, for patches not ready for upstream submission Also, there may be a signed tag named hwmon-for-linus, which is used to reference pull requests. > Especially I dont't understand very well why your patch are numbered > 0/4, 1/4, etc. > I would suggest to look into Documentation/SubmittingPatches for an explanation on how the patch submit process works. Also, have a look into Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches for additional guidelines. Guenter > Thank you a lot in advance, I hope to be able to test and report things > efficiently after you answered me. > > Actually I would like to gain experience in linux kernel development, > and I would like to watch closely your project in which I have personal > interest but that I find also great because it is really useful for > everyone. I expect to become a good kernel dev after following this > project that I find interesting. > > Thank you very much. > > David Kremer > > _______________________________________________ > lm-sensors mailing list > lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
