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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net, tytso@mit.edu, hch@infradead.org,
	viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 12:54:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080521125449.344a445d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080521194522.GA13916@cvg>

On Wed, 21 May 2008 23:45:22 +0400
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:

> Anrew, Randy, you just wrote KernelNewbiesGuide I think ;) There are
> lot of internet sites which could help with what-to-do, and linux-mm.org
> and kernel.bugzilla.org and more BUT what I've tried to say is that we
> really have such document inside kernel tree (it could be really short)
> like:
> 
> Which patches are not good for sending to LKML
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
>  - Plain whitespace cleanup
> 
> Some rules just *known* only if you have an experience in LKML mailing
> but if someone is sending _first_ patch he ever made he just doesn't know
> that. That is all. So we need not a link to some inet resource BUT written
> in file inside of kernel tree. But that is just my (personal) opinion.

Yes, a general GettingStarted document would probably be useful.
It would hopefully have more what-to-do content than what-not-to-do.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-21 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-21  5:58 [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments Jianjun Kong
2008-05-21  7:19 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-05-21 11:35   ` David Newall
2008-05-21  8:34 ` CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) Al Viro
2008-05-21  8:50   ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21  9:19     ` CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org David Miller
2008-05-21  9:41     ` CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) Al Viro
2008-05-21 17:44       ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 19:45         ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-21 20:38           ` Rene Herman
2008-05-21 20:50             ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 21:08               ` Rene Herman
2008-05-21 21:12                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 21:32                   ` Rene Herman
2008-05-22 19:40           ` Jaya Kumar
2008-05-21 10:32     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21 12:09       ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-21 17:46         ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 18:57           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-21 19:31             ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 20:10               ` CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org David Miller
2008-05-21 21:25                 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-21 21:44                   ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-21 21:56                     ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-21 21:08               ` CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-05-21 23:01               ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-21 23:17                 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-21 23:55                   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-22  0:10                     ` Rene Herman
2008-05-22 14:31                       ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-21 23:35                 ` Al Viro
2008-05-22  0:38                   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-22  1:05                     ` Alan Cox
2008-05-22 16:08                 ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-21 19:33             ` Randy Dunlap
2008-05-21 19:45               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-21 19:54                 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-05-21 20:06                   ` Jesper Juhl
2008-05-21 20:27                     ` CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments), " Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-21 20:37                       ` Jesper Juhl
2008-05-21 23:46                         ` Jesper Juhl
2008-05-22  0:12                           ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-22  0:32                             ` Jesper Juhl
2008-05-22  1:03                             ` Alan Cox
2008-05-22 14:56                             ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-22 15:29                             ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-22  0:14                           ` Al Viro
2008-05-22  0:34                             ` Jesper Juhl
2008-05-22  1:07                           ` Johannes Weiner
2008-05-22  4:51                           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-22  5:34                           ` david
2008-05-31 16:23                           ` Nick Andrew
2008-05-21 19:42             ` Johannes Weiner
2008-05-21 19:47               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-21 19:49           ` CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org David Miller
2008-05-21 22:03             ` Al Viro

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