How to contribute to latest -rc kernel?

[fan.du@windriver.com (Fan Du)]

On 2013?11?28? 00:26, Arvid Brodin wrote:
> On 2013-11-27 02:20, Fan Du wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Actually, part of the patch series is adding myself as the maintainer for the
> driver. :)

I'm afraid this will depends on your fix is a major one or trivial...

> I thought the subsystem -next trees was for the next release of Linux? I.e., what
> goes into the net-next tree now will find its way into mainline at the next
> release window, for linux-3.14-rc1?
>
> I'm not sure though. It's a bit confusing. Aldo Iljazi said this:
>>   Arvid Brodin wrote:
>>
>>> * What tree to diff against? (Linus'?)
>>
>> I believe that you need to diff against linux-next tree: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/?id=refs/tags/next-20131126
>>
>>> * To which list do I send the patch?
>>
>> Well you can send it to the Linux Kernel Mailing List.
>> -- Aldo Iljazi
>
> Which seems reasonable to me. Is there anyone who can confirm this?

As I said before, if your fix is networking related, please rebase against net-next.
Refer: Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt


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