From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752061Ab2GPDlV (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:41:21 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:51407 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751566Ab2GPDlP (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:41:15 -0400 Message-ID: <50032F24.8050903@landley.net> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:59:16 -0500 From: Rob Landley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Beller CC: Jeff Garzik , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rewrite Documentation/SubmittingPatches. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/13/2012 09:45 AM, Stefan Beller wrote: > This updates the documentation on how to create patches and send > these to the kernel mailing list. > > The documentation before was written in times before git was there, > so the crafting of the patch needed to be done manually by diff -up > in the right directory. > > This patch aims at simplifying the patch sending process, without > breaking the output results. This patch is whitespace damaged (wordwrapped at the @@ lines), which is either ironic or unfortunate. (After Alanis Morisette, I can't tell anymore.) > A discussion can be found at > https://plus.google.com/111049168280159033135/posts/ekAxK9achsA > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller > Acked-by: Jeff Garzik jgarzik@pobox.com But other than that Jeff's objection was my big one, and that's addressed in v2, so: Acked-by: Rob Landley Rob -- GNU/Linux isn't: Linux=GPLv2, GNU=GPLv3+, they can't share code. Either it's "mere aggregation", or a license violation. Pick one.