From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: fan.du@windriver.com (Fan Du) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:20:52 +0800 Subject: How to contribute to latest -rc kernel? In-Reply-To: <5293BE52.3060005@alten.se> References: <5293BE52.3060005@alten.se> Message-ID: <529548F4.50206@windriver.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org 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. > > -- > Arvid Brodin | Consultant (Linux) > ALTEN | Knarrarn?sgatan 7 | SE-164 40 Kista | Sweden > arvid.brodin at alten.se | www.alten.se/en/ > ________________________________ > Xdin is changing its name. From 25 November 2013 we will be known as Alten. Read more at www.alten.se > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies -- ????????? --fan fan