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From: fan.du@windriver.com (Fan Du)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: How to contribute to latest -rc kernel?
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:20:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <529548F4.50206@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5293BE52.3060005@alten.se>



On 2013?11?26? 05:17, Arvid Brodin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How would I go ahead to send a patch for the latest -rc kernel?
>
> Specifically:
>
> * What tree to diff against? (Linus'?)
> * To which list do I send the patch?
>
> Background: I've contributed a new network driver that is now in 3.13-rc1. I
> would like to fix it so that it behaves better with iproute. Strictly speaking
> this isn't a bug fix, but the driver is going to be quite useless without
> iproute support, and that won't be there until this fix is in the kernel.

Almost every subsystem has its own next git tree, since it's a networking driver
issue, please verify your fix against net-next:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/

And send the patch to netdev maillist:
http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#netdev

You need also CC the driver maintainer by looking at linux_source_code/MAINTAINERS,
or using ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl.


>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-27  1:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-25 21:17 How to contribute to latest -rc kernel? Arvid Brodin
2013-11-26 21:23 ` Aldo Iljazi
2013-11-27  1:20 ` Fan Du [this message]
2013-11-27 16:26   ` Arvid Brodin
2013-11-28  0:42     ` Fan Du
2013-11-28  8:11     ` Bjørn Mork
2013-11-28 17:31       ` Arvid Brodin

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