From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935600AbXGMTSH (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:18:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759624AbXGMTR4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:17:56 -0400 Received: from dns.hk.18mail.cn ([210.245.210.181]:54876 "EHLO hkm1.server.hk.18mail.cn" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758316AbXGMTR4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:17:56 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1604 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:17:56 EDT Message-ID: <4697C980.1040902@zh-kernel.org> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:50:40 +0800 From: TripleX Chung User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: trivial@kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Ask for help, about the trivial patches. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I am working on the chinese translated version of Documentation/SubmittingPatches and get some problem about the "Trivial patches".I can not understand what "Trivial patches" exactly means.The documentation said: Trivial patches must qualify for one of the following rules: Spelling fixes in documentation //Understand Spelling fixes which could break grep(1) //Is there any wrong spelling won't break grep(1)? Warning fixes (cluttering with useless warnings is bad) //Understand Compilation fixes (only if they are actually correct) //Understand Runtime fixes (only if they actually fix things) //What kind of runtime fixes? Could anyone give some examples? Removing use of deprecated functions/macros (eg. check_region) //Understand Contact detail and documentation fixes //Means Contact detail fixes and documentation fixes, right? Are all the documentation fixes "trivial"? Non-portable code replaced by portable code (even in arch-specific, since people copy, as long as it's trivial) //Do not understand the words in the brackets. Any fix by the author/maintainer of the file (ie. patch monkey in re-transmission mode) //It means if I am the author of a file, when I modify the file, the patch is trivial, right? Please give me some advice. Thanks in advance.