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SubmittingPatches: add a reference to Andi's OLS paper
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Subject: SubmittingPatches: add a reference to Andi's OLS paper
From: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
For this year's OLS I wrote a paper on successfull strategies to submit
difficult kernel patches. Add a reference to it to SubmittingPatches.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff -puN Documentation/SubmittingPatches~submittingpatches-add-a-reference-to-andis-ols-paper Documentation/SubmittingPatches
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches~submittingpatches-add-a-reference-to-andis-ols-paper
+++ a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -672,4 +672,9 @@ Kernel Documentation/CodingStyle:
Linus Torvalds's mail on the canonical patch format:
<http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/7/183>
+
+Andi Kleen, "On submitting kernel patches"
+ Some strategies to get difficult or controversal changes in.
+ http://halobates.de/on-submitting-patches.pdf
+
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
git-tip.patch
git-pci.patch
git-ext4.patch
acpi-toshiba_acpic-fix-sparse-signedness-mismatch-warnings.patch
acpi-compal-laptop-use-rfkill-switch-subsystem.patch
misdn-misc-timerdev-fixes-fix.patch
make-taint-bit-reliable-v3.patch
make-taint-bit-reliable-v3-fix.patch
taint-fix-kernel-doc.patch
submittingpatches-add-a-reference-to-andis-ols-paper.patch
rtc-cmos-strongly-avoid-hpet-emulation.patch
pnp-make-the-resource-type-an-unsigned-long.patch
pnp-make-the-resource-type-an-unsigned-long-fix.patch
coredump-format_corename-dont-append-%pid-if-multi-threaded.patch
add-config_core_dump_default_elf_headers.patch
acpi-use-bcd2bin-bin2bcd.patch
profile-likely-unlikely-macros.patch
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