On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:31 PM, <adhirramjiawan0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm new to kernel development and I have just started learning how to create linux kernel patches. > > I would like to know how the 'signing off' and 'acknowledgment' processes work? > > I'm assuming that I as the patch author I need to sign off, but who do I send the file to so that it can be acknowledged? Do I need to find an individual who's actively involved in kernel development? > > Thanks in advance! > Adhir Hello! Git and some scripts in the kernel tree help a lot. First of all, when you write a patch, you sign it off in your name (you can use the -s flag when issuing the git format-patch command), to take both credit and responsibility for what you wrote. The patch will be send to one or more mailing lists [0] or to some persons (top developers). To see who you should send it to, use the script from the linux tree called scripts/get_maintainer.pl. Just run that scrip with your patch as the parameter. It will list the emails you should send to. Next, you can use the git send-mail command to send the patch itself to those emails. If your patch gets accepted by a main developer, (s)he will push the patch to the main branch, signing it off too. Do a git log on the linux tree and take a random commit and see the signed-off-by and acked-by lines and you can use Patchwork [1] or search through the mailing lists archives to to see who did what (everything is public). Hope this helps. [0] http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html [1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/ -- Alexandru Juncu ROSEdu http://rosedu.org _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
