The patch titled
Documentation: prune redundant SubmitChecklist items
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documentation-prune-redundant-submitchecklist-items.patch
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*** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: Documentation: prune redundant SubmitChecklist items
From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Kernel style is mentioned twice, and the git apply trick is a bit redundant
given the checkpatch.pl recommendation (which also checks for bad
whitespace).
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/SubmitChecklist | 16 +++++-----------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff -puN Documentation/SubmitChecklist~documentation-prune-redundant-submitchecklist-items Documentation/SubmitChecklist
--- a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist~documentation-prune-redundant-submitchecklist-items
+++ a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
@@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ kernel patches.
4: ppc64 is a good architecture for cross-compilation checking because it
tends to use `unsigned long' for 64-bit quantities.
-5: Matches kernel coding style(!)
+5: Check your patch for general style as detailed in
+ Documentation/CodingStyle. Check for trivial violations with the
+ patch style checker prior to submission (scripts/checkpatch.pl).
+ You should be able to justify all violations that remain in
+ your patch.
6: Any new or modified CONFIG options don't muck up the config menu.
@@ -79,13 +83,3 @@ kernel patches.
23: Tested after it has been merged into the -mm patchset to make sure
that it still works with all of the other queued patches and various
changes in the VM, VFS, and other subsystems.
-
-24: Avoid whitespace damage such as indenting with spaces or whitespace
- at the end of lines. You can test this by feeding the patch to
- "git apply --check --whitespace=error-all"
-
-25: Check your patch for general style as detailed in
- Documentation/CodingStyle. Check for trivial violations with the
- patch style checker prior to submission (scripts/checkpatch.pl).
- You should be able to justify all violations that remain in
- your patch.
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
documentation-prune-redundant-submitchecklist-items.patch
use-struct-path-in-struct-svc_export.patch
use-struct-path-in-struct-svc_export-checkpatch-fixes.patch
reiser4.patch
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