From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268069AbUHaLmN (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 07:42:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267882AbUHaLl4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 07:41:56 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:24281 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267939AbUHaLlp (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 07:41:45 -0400 Message-ID: <413463EA.8030805@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 07:41:30 -0400 From: Neil Horman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0; hi, Mom) Gecko/20020604 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , Jeremy Higdon Subject: Re: [DOC] Linux kernel patch submission format References: <413431F5.9000704@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <413431F5.9000704@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I tried to keep it as short as possible: here is a page describing the > most optimal format for sending patches to Linux kernel developers. > > http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html > > This URL should be permanent, feel free to bookmark it. > Comments welcome. > > Jeff > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ So, this may already be asked and answered (apologies if it has), but is it worth gpg-signing submissions so that authenticity can be verified to some degree when a patch is posted (and for archival purposes)? I ask because this is whats done on the fedora extras channel when updates get pushed, and it seems like a reasonable addition to the process. Neil -- /*************************************************** *Neil Horman *Software Engineer *Red Hat, Inc. *nhorman@redhat.com *gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1 *http://pgp.mit.edu ***************************************************/