From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 06:44:51 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050306094451.GA21907@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050304222146.GA1686@kroah.com>
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:21:46PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Anything else anyone can think of? Any objections to any of these?
> I based them off of Linus's original list.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> ------
>
> Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and what ones are not, into
> the "linux-release" tree.
>
> - It can not bigger than 100 lines, with context.
> - It must fix only one thing.
> - It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, "This could be a
> problem..." type thing.)
> - It must fix a problem that causes a build error (but not for things
> marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, or a real security issue.
"and breakage of previously working functionality" ?
> - No "theoretical race condition" issues, unless an explanation of how
> the race can be exploited.
> - It can not contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes,
> whitespace cleanups, etc.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-06 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-04 22:21 [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree Greg KH
2005-03-05 5:08 ` Ian Pilcher
2005-03-05 5:52 ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-03-05 8:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-03-05 12:39 ` Ed Tomlinson
2005-03-05 9:58 ` Adam Sampson
2005-03-05 17:42 ` Greg KH
2005-03-05 18:26 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-03-05 10:43 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-03-05 17:42 ` Greg KH
2005-03-06 17:10 ` Andres Salomon
2005-03-06 20:10 ` Adam Kropelin
2005-03-07 8:32 ` Andres Salomon
2005-03-07 7:50 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-07 8:14 ` Andres Salomon
2005-03-05 13:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-05 17:40 ` Greg KH
2005-03-05 18:31 ` Andre Tomt
2005-03-05 20:01 ` Ian Pilcher
2005-03-06 9:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2005-03-07 17:35 ` John W. Linville
2005-03-06 11:20 ` Joel Becker
2005-03-06 11:23 ` Jesper Juhl
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-04 20:36 [PATCH] I2C: lm80 driver improvement Greg KH
2005-03-05 5:57 ` [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree Shawn Starr
2005-03-05 6:11 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-03-05 16:33 ` Greg KH
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