user/sven/linux.git/Documentation/SubmittingPatches, branch v3.18.37

Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Reported-by tags and permission

2014-10-29T12:56:46Z

The reported-by text says you have to ask for permission, but that should only be if the bug was reported in private. These days the standard is to always give reported-by credit or it's considered a bit rude. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: new page link in SubmittingPatches

2014-09-07T22:21:13Z

new link for - How to piss off a Linux kernel subsystem maintainer Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation: SubmittingPatches: overhaul changelog description

2014-08-09T16:13:40Z

Maintainers often repeat the same feedback on poorly written changelogs - describe the problem, justify your changes, quantify optimizations, describe user-visible changes - but our documentation on writing changelogs doesn't include these things. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2014-08-07T04:03:53Z

Pull trivial tree changes from Jiri Kosina: "Summer edition of trivial tree updates" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits) doc: fix two typos in watchdog-api.txt irq-gic: remove file name from heading comment MAINTAINERS: Add miscdevice.h to file list for char/misc drivers. scsi: mvsas: mv_sas.c: Fix for possible null pointer dereference doc: replace "practise" with "practice" in Documentation befs: remove check for CONFIG_BEFS_RW scsi: doc: fix 'SCSI_NCR_SETUP_MASTER_PARITY' drivers/usb/phy/phy.c: remove a leading space mfd: fix comment cpuidle: fix comment doc: hpfall.c: fix missing null-terminate after strncpy call usb: doc: hotplug.txt code typos kbuild: fix comment in Makefile.modinst SH: add proper prompt to SH_MAGIC_PANEL_R2_VERSION ARM: msm: Remove MSM_SCM crypto: Remove MPILIB_EXTRA doc: CN: remove dead link, kerneltrap.org no longer works media: update reference, kerneltrap.org no longer works hexagon: update reference, kerneltrap.org no longer works doc: LSM: update reference, kerneltrap.org no longer works ...

doc: replace "practise" with "practice" in Documentation

2014-06-19T13:28:56Z

To keep the Documentation consistent either "practise" or "practice" should be used. Since there are 3 lines with "practise" ~/linux/Documentation$ grep -r practise * | wc -l 3 and 108 lines with "practice" ~/linux/Documentation$ grep -r practice * | wc -l 108 this patch converts "practise" to "practice". Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Documentation/SubmittingPatches: describe the Fixes: tag

2014-06-06T23:08:11Z

Update the SubmittingPatches process to include howto about the new 'Fixes:' tag to be used when a patch fixes an issue in a previous commit (found by git-bisect for example). Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller Tested-by: Aaron Brown Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/SubmittingPatches: update some dead URLs

2014-04-03T23:21:27Z

The links to "The perfect patch" and "NO!!!! No more huge patch bombs..." have gone stale. Update them to some working locations. Signed-off-by: Mitchel Humpherys Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

SubmittingPatches: document the use of git

2014-04-03T23:21:06Z

Most of the mechanical portions of SubmittingPatches exist to help patch submitters replicate the output of git. Mention this explicitly, both as a reminder that git will help with this process, and as signposting to let git users know what they can safely skip. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Rob Landley Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

SubmittingPatches: add recommendation for mailing list references

2014-04-03T23:21:06Z

SubmittingPatches already mentions referencing bugs fixed by a commit, but doesn't mention citing relevant mailing list discussions. Add a note to that effect, along with a recommendation to use the https://lkml.kernel.org/ redirector. Portions based on text from git's SubmittingPatches. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Rob Landley Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

SubmittingPatches: add style recommendation to use imperative descriptions

2014-04-03T23:21:06Z

Most commit messages use this style, and the recommendation frequently comes up in discussions (especially in response to patches that don't use it), but that recommendation doesn't actually appear anywhere in Documentation. Add this style guideline to SubmittingPatches, using the description from git's SubmittingPatches. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Rob Landley Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds