Jan Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 15:01:26 +0500, Zeeshan Ali wrote: ... >> Furthermore, normally to contribute to a project, one need to get >> the latest (cvs/svn/etc) version of the project, hack on it and then >> either commit their changes (IF they have the write access) or submit >> the patch to the devel list. How things go in the kernel world? Do i >> need to have an up2date copy of the kernel all the time to contribute >> to it? > > Much kernel development is done simply on the most recent released > (including the -pre and -rc versions). However kernel is in > a revision-control-system now. It uses bitkeeper. You should be able to > create your own branch in bitkeeper, work on it and then tell > appropriate maintainer to merge it. There is introduction to bitkeeper > in Documentation/BK-usage. There are also some scripts there, that you > want to use if you use bitkeeper. Also see the docs in Documentation like SubmittingPatches. -- Ed L Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
