Re: Patch format for submission?

[Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>]

Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> writes:

> Paul Walmsley wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>> 
>> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Peter Barada wrote:
>> 
>>> 1) Does anyone have a URL of the format patches should be in that are
>>> submitted to the linux-omap list?
>>>
>>> I've got some patches to add base support for the Logic OMAP 35x SOM and
>>> Torpedo boards and I'd like to submit them in the right format for
>>> inclusion and push into mainline.
>> 
>> Documentation/SubmittingPatches and Documentation/CodingStyle are pretty 
>> good intros to this.
>>
> Also, Andrew Morton wrote a paper called "The Perfect Patch"
> with a nice checklist of attributes.
>
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt
>

In addition to above suggestions, I highly recommend using git tools
which automate many of these recommended steps.

Usin 'git format-patch' and then 'git send-email' will get you a long
ways.

Kevin