The patch titled Documentation: additions to SubmitChecklist has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was documentation-additions-to-submitchecklist.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Documentation: additions to SubmitChecklist From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> Add build testing using 'O=builddir'. Add build testing with various kconfig symbols disabled, listing common ones that are known to cause build problems. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/SubmitChecklist | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff -puN Documentation/SubmitChecklist~documentation-additions-to-submitchecklist Documentation/SubmitChecklist --- a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist~documentation-additions-to-submitchecklist +++ a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ kernel patches. 2b: Passes allnoconfig, allmodconfig +2c: Builds successfully when using O=builddir + 3: Builds on multiple CPU architectures by using local cross-compile tools or some other build farm. @@ -95,3 +97,13 @@ kernel patches. 25: If any ioctl's are added by the patch, then also update Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt. + +26: If your modified source code depends on or uses any of the kernel + APIs or features that are related to the following kconfig symbols, + then test multiple builds with the related kconfig symbols disabled + and/or =m (if that option is available) [not all of these at the + same time, just various/random combinations of them]: + + CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_SYSFS, CONFIG_PROC_FS, CONFIG_INPUT, CONFIG_PCI, + CONFIG_BLOCK, CONFIG_PM, CONFIG_HOTPLUG, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ, + CONFIG_NET, CONFIG_INET=n (but latter with CONFIG_NET=y) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch dib3000mc-reduce-large-stack-usage.patch dib7000p-reduce-large-stack-usage.patch led-driver-for-the-soekris-net5501-board-fix-2.patch leds-route-kbd-leds-through-the-generic-leds-layer-leds-input-depends-on-input.patch scsi-fix-convert-scsi_scanc-kernel-doc.patch scsi-update-drivers-tools-url-references.patch laptop-mode-make-flushes-per-device-fix.patch mmcompaction-add-a-tunable-that-decides-when-memory-should-be-compacted-and-when-it-should-be-reclaimed.patch lib-hexdumpc-reduce-stack-variable-size-and-cleanups.patch xen-fix-build-when-sysrq-is-disabled.patch documentation-submittingdrivers-resources.patch memcg-move-charge-of-file-pages-fix-2.patch memcg-update-documentation-v8.patch numa-update-documentation-vm-numa-add-memoryless-node-info.patch reiser4-export-remove_from_page_cache-fix.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module-add-missing-header-file.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html