Questions on the procedure/policy for patch submission

Questions on the procedure/policy for patch submission

[Marc St-Jean]

1a. Do patches living completely in arch/mips and include/asm-mips only have to be submitted to the l-m.o?

1b. If so, does this imply that l-m.o will push them to kernel.org?


2a. Do patches which are outside the above directories have the be submitted to the kernel.org list?

2b. If so, how are dependencies between the two sets of submission handled during the review process?

Thanks,
Marc

Re: Questions on the procedure/policy for patch submission

[Yoichi Yuasa]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:05:21 -0800
Marc St-Jean <Marc_St-Jean@pmc-sierra.com> wrote:

> 1a. Do patches living completely in arch/mips and include/asm-mips only have to be submitted to the l-m.o?

You can see the general rules Documentation/SubmittingPatches in kernel source.
You should submit MIPS part to linux-mips mailing list.

> 1b. If so, does this imply that l-m.o will push them to kernel.org?

Yes.

> 2a. Do patches which are outside the above directories have the be submitted to the kernel.org list?

You will be able to find a suitable mailing list in MAINTAINERS in kernel source.

> 2b. If so, how are dependencies between the two sets of submission handled during the review process?

If they have dependency, you should add linux-mips mailing list to Cc:. 

Yoichi

Re: Questions on the procedure/policy for patch submission

[Marc St-Jean]

Yoichi Yuasa wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:05:21 -0800
> Marc St-Jean <Marc_St-Jean@pmc-sierra.com> wrote:
> 
>  > 1a. Do patches living completely in arch/mips and include/asm-mips 
> only have to be submitted to the l-m.o?
> 
> You can see the general rules Documentation/SubmittingPatches in kernel 
> source.

I have read, neither it or the FAQ cover per-architectural issues.

> You should submit MIPS part to linux-mips mailing list.
> 
>  > 1b. If so, does this imply that l-m.o will push them to kernel.org?
> 
> Yes.

Thanks for verifying.

>  > 2a. Do patches which are outside the above directories have the be 
> submitted to the kernel.org list?
> 
> You will be able to find a suitable mailing list in MAINTAINERS in 
> kernel source.
> 
>  > 2b. If so, how are dependencies between the two sets of submission 
> handled during the review process?
> 
> If they have dependency, you should add linux-mips mailing list to Cc:.

I intend to but this wont help the folks on the kernel.org list who won't
see the MIPS specific parts.

Marc