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doc: SubmitChecklist, add ioctls, remove OSDL reference
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If a patch adds ioctls, then Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt
should also be updated.

Remove reference to the OSDL PLM build farm.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored and Linus Torvalds committed Dec 16, 2009
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2: Passes allnoconfig, allmodconfig

3: Builds on multiple CPU architectures by using local cross-compile tools
or something like PLM at OSDL.
or some other build farm.

4: ppc64 is a good architecture for cross-compilation checking because it
tends to use `unsigned long' for 64-bit quantities.
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24: All memory barriers {e.g., barrier(), rmb(), wmb()} need a comment in the
source code that explains the logic of what they are doing and why.

25: If any ioctl's are added by the patch, then also update
Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt.

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