* /drivers/staging/TODO doc and kernel tasks question
@ 2014-10-23 3:05 Jaime Arrocha
2014-10-23 3:18 ` Greg KH
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jaime Arrocha @ 2014-10-23 3:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
Good day,
The TODO document has the addresses of where to send a patch, but if
you run get_maintainer.pl it gives me a different person to address
it, gregkh for example.
I have sent a patch to the persons on the TODO list, should I still
copy to the maintainer in charge too? CC maybe?
Another question, apart from the /drivers/staging and bugtracker, is
there some where else to look for bug info? The mailing list? I just
want to get the complete picture.
Last question, I understand that if there is a bug, most of the time
they tell you to try to reproduce it on the latest kernel. If it
doesn't occur then everything is good and I should look for another
one. But who is in charge of porting a bug fix like these to old
kernels? How can I help? Or I, as a newbie, should focus more on the
/drivers/staging and bugtracker?
I want to thank in advance for your time and please let me know if I
can read about all this in some website.
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* /drivers/staging/TODO doc and kernel tasks question
2014-10-23 3:05 /drivers/staging/TODO doc and kernel tasks question Jaime Arrocha
@ 2014-10-23 3:18 ` Greg KH
2014-10-23 20:18 ` Jaime Arrocha
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Greg KH @ 2014-10-23 3:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:05:30PM -0500, Jaime Arrocha wrote:
> Good day,
>
> The TODO document has the addresses of where to send a patch, but if
> you run get_maintainer.pl it gives me a different person to address
> it, gregkh for example.
if you don't cc: me, the patch will not get merged, it's that simple :)
> I have sent a patch to the persons on the TODO list, should I still
> copy to the maintainer in charge too? CC maybe?
Yes, and the mailing list as well please. Trust get_maintainer.pl, it
works properly.
> Another question, apart from the /drivers/staging and bugtracker, is
> there some where else to look for bug info? The mailing list? I just
> want to get the complete picture.
bugzilla.kernel.org doesn't show much of anything for staging drivers,
what specifically are you looking for?
> Last question, I understand that if there is a bug, most of the time
> they tell you to try to reproduce it on the latest kernel. If it
> doesn't occur then everything is good and I should look for another
> one. But who is in charge of porting a bug fix like these to old
> kernels? How can I help? Or I, as a newbie, should focus more on the
> /drivers/staging and bugtracker?
Read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how patches get
backported to older stable kernel releases.
thanks,
greg k-h
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* /drivers/staging/TODO doc and kernel tasks question
2014-10-23 3:18 ` Greg KH
@ 2014-10-23 20:18 ` Jaime Arrocha
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jaime Arrocha @ 2014-10-23 20:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
Thanks Greg for your response. I just wanted to get an idea of where
else to look for newbie projects,
like helping with documentation, style and the sort for now. I ask
because the bugzilla does happen
to show some bugs stated as NEW that are already fixed on the latest
release. I'll keep looking.
I prepared a patch to get my feet wet on patch format and coding
style, I'll send it again.
Thanks again.
Jaime A.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:05:30PM -0500, Jaime Arrocha wrote:
>> Good day,
>>
>> The TODO document has the addresses of where to send a patch, but if
>> you run get_maintainer.pl it gives me a different person to address
>> it, gregkh for example.
>
> if you don't cc: me, the patch will not get merged, it's that simple :)
>
>> I have sent a patch to the persons on the TODO list, should I still
>> copy to the maintainer in charge too? CC maybe?
>
> Yes, and the mailing list as well please. Trust get_maintainer.pl, it
> works properly.
>
>> Another question, apart from the /drivers/staging and bugtracker, is
>> there some where else to look for bug info? The mailing list? I just
>> want to get the complete picture.
>
> bugzilla.kernel.org doesn't show much of anything for staging drivers,
> what specifically are you looking for?
>
>> Last question, I understand that if there is a bug, most of the time
>> they tell you to try to reproduce it on the latest kernel. If it
>> doesn't occur then everything is good and I should look for another
>> one. But who is in charge of porting a bug fix like these to old
>> kernels? How can I help? Or I, as a newbie, should focus more on the
>> /drivers/staging and bugtracker?
>
> Read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how patches get
> backported to older stable kernel releases.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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