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.
next prev parent 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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