From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:14:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Checkpatch Patches In-Reply-To: <6382.1410883712@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <541830AB.6020104@gmail.com> <41030.1410877181@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <6382.1410883712@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:57:35 -0400, Lidza Louina said: > > > Use this guide: http://kernelnewbies.org/OPWfirstpatch > > > > It's a tutorial that shows you how to setup and send patches. > > Don't bother. > > He's been pointed at that at least once a week for the past two months, > and everybody from me to Greg KH to Ted T'so and at least a half dozen other > experienced kernel people have told him *repeatedly* what to do and not do, > and he has *yet* to post a correct patch - and he keeps making the same > mistakes that he was told not to. For instance, I didn't even *bother* > looking at his last two patches, because they were attachments, even *after* > Robert PJ Day told him *yesterday* to not do that. i posted three simple pieces of advice yesterday: * proper grammar, at the very least in the subject line * make sure the commit description matches the patch * no attachments nick promptly violated all of the above. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================