From: Dale Sedivec Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:07:17 +0000 Subject: [KJ] Clarifying process for submitting a patch Message-Id: <20060313000717.GA19862@morgase.caliginous.net> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============46481833302848941==" List-Id: To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org --===============46481833302848941== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline I just jumped in and started working on the __init/__exit issue (from the TODO list). I've got a small patch against the au88x0 (Aureal Vortex, I guess) sound driver ready to go. I understand most of the process for submitting a patch, but a few things aren't clear to me: 1. Do I or don't I include the kernel version being patched against? Documentation/SubmittingPatches says to, http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt (4b) says not to. Should I include the version in the subject line, as specified in http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html? I don't see anyone on k-j doing this. 2. In general, who should I send to when submitting patches for k-j items? Possibilities apparently include: * kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org * The driver maintainer * The subsystem maintainer * The subsystem mailing list * LKML * Trivial patch monkey Which of these should I send to? Obviously only "trivial" patches get send to trivial patch monkey. I see some people on k-j Cc'ing LKML, but some others don't. 3. I believe I read that it's good to submit a small patch to k-j first to see if it works. Should that be sent _only_ to k-j? If so, and if no one brings up any problems with the format of the patch on k-j, am I then supposed to resend that patch to some/all of the above places? Thanks, Dale --===============46481833302848941== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors --===============46481833302848941==--