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[PATCH] Doc/SubmittingPatches cleanups
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A few cleanups to SubmittingPatches:
- mention SubmitChecklist
- remove mention of my simple patch script tools
- remove last-updated line

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jul 31, 2006
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Expand Up @@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ kernel, the process can sometimes be daunting if you're not familiar
with "the system." This text is a collection of suggestions which
can greatly increase the chances of your change being accepted.

If you are submitting a driver, also read Documentation/SubmittingDrivers.
Read Documentation/SubmitChecklist for a list of items to check
before submitting code. If you are submitting a driver, also read
Documentation/SubmittingDrivers.



Expand Down Expand Up @@ -74,9 +76,6 @@ There are a number of scripts which can aid in this:
Quilt:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt

Randy Dunlap's patch scripts:
http://www.xenotime.net/linux/scripts/patching-scripts-002.tar.gz

Andrew Morton's patch scripts:
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/
Instead of these scripts, quilt is the recommended patch management
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -484,7 +483,7 @@ Greg Kroah-Hartman "How to piss off a kernel subsystem maintainer".
<http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/10/19/>
<http://www.kroah.com/log/2006/01/11/>

NO!!!! No more huge patch bombs to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org people!.
NO!!!! No more huge patch bombs to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org people!
<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112112749912944&w=2>

Kernel Documentation/CodingStyle
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Linus Torvald's mail on the canonical patch format:
<http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/7/183>
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Last updated on 17 Nov 2005.

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