We are seeing increasing levels of minor patch style violations in submissions
to the mailing lists as well as making it into the tree. These detract from
the quality of the submission and cause unnessary work for reviewers.
As a first step package up the current state of the patch style checker and
include it in the kernel tree. Add instructions suggesting running it on
submissions. This adds version v0.01 of the checkpatch.pl script.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Update Documentation/SubmitChecklist.
- Mention lockdep coverage
- Describe documentation requirements
- Number the various items to simplify the composition of caustic emails.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Provide a checklist of techniques to aid kernel patch submitters in
producing healthy patches and in lessening a burden on maintainers.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Jesper Juhl