RE: Question about "Creating first patch" guide

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Helps very much, thank you!  

I think I read somewhere in that tutorial that posting your patch to kernel-newbie was a safe thing to do to get comments/criticism before submitting to the maintainer mailing list (linux-serial in this case).  Is that true?

Thanks again.

Rob Groner

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 3:44 PM
> To: Rob Groner <rgroner@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Question about "Creating first patch" guide
> 
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 07:22:08PM +0000, Rob Groner wrote:
> > The OutreachyfirstpatchSetup has been very helpful in setting up my
> > computer to develop a patch to submit to the kernel overlords.
> >
> >
> >
> > I’m at the point where I’ve changed the kernel code, ran and test it,
> > and see just my changes with “git diff”.  What has me a little
> > confused is that before I actually create the patch file (to submit to
> > the appropriate mailing list), it says to actually commit the change.
> > Perhaps I don’t understand how git handles commit (I primarily use
> > svn), but it seems like actually committing the change is kind of
> > presumptuous before even posting anything on the mailing list of those
> that control the git repository.
> >
> >
> >
> > What part am I not understanding?
> 
> You should create a branch and work on that, making a commit there, then it
> is trivial to turn that into a patch, as the tutorial suggests.
> 
> With git, everything can be local, svn requires you to push your changes to
> the server, which is the big difference here.
> 
> hope this helps,
> 
> greg k-h
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