The patch titled
add Doc/SubmitChecklist
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
add-doc-submitchecklist.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Provide a checklist of techniques to aid kernel patch submitters in
producing healthy patches and in lessening a burden on maintainers.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/SubmitChecklist | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 56 insertions(+)
diff -puN /dev/null Documentation/SubmitChecklist
--- /dev/null Thu Apr 11 07:25:15 2002
+++ 25-akpm/Documentation/SubmitChecklist Thu Apr 27 16:02:58 2006
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+Linux Kernel patch sumbittal checklist
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Here are some basic things that developers should do if they
+want to see their kernel patch submittals accepted quicker.
+
+These are all above and beyond the documentation that is provided
+in Documentation/SubmittingPatches and elsewhere about submitting
+Linux kernel patches.
+
+
+
+- Builds cleanly with applicable or modified CONFIG options =y, =m, and =n.
+ No gcc warnings/errors, no linker warnings/errors.
+
+- Passes allnoconfig, allmodconfig
+
+- Builds on multiple CPU arch-es by using local cross-compile tools
+ or something like PLM at OSDL.
+
+- ppc64 is a good architecture for cross-compilation checking because it
+ tends to use `unsigned long' for 64-bit quantities.
+
+- Matches kernel coding style(!)
+
+- Any new or modified CONFIG options don't muck up the config menu.
+
+- All new Kconfig options have help text.
+
+- Has been carefully reviewed with respect to relevant Kconfig
+ combinations. This is very hard to get right with testing --
+ brainpower pays off here.
+
+- Check cleanly with sparse.
+
+- Use 'make checkstack' and 'make namespacecheck' and fix any
+ problems that they find. Note: checkstack does not point out
+ problems explicitly, but any one function that uses more than
+ 512 bytes on the stack is a candidate for change.
+
+- Include kernel-doc to document global kernel APIs. (Not required
+ for static functions, but OK there also.) Use 'make htmldocs'
+ or 'make mandocs' to check the kernel-doc and fix any issues.
+
+- Has been tested with CONFIG_PREEMPT, CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB,
+ CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES, CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK,
+ CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP all simultaneously enabled.
+
+- Has been build- and runtime tested with and without CONFIG_SMP and
+ CONFIG_PREEMPT.
+
+- If the patch affects IO/Disk, etc: has been tested with and without
+ CONFIG_LBD.
+
+
+2006-APR-27
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
add-doc-submitchecklist.patch
w1_con-add-w1-to-depends.patch
config-exit-if-no-beginning-filename.patch
git-mtd.patch
areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch
git-watchdog.patch
add-poisonh-and-patch-primary-users.patch
update-2-drivers-for-poisonh.patch
acpi-identify-which-device-is-not-power-manageable.patch
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