From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: bonding sysfs output Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:14:18 -0800 Message-ID: <20071127021418.8a05d225.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <87tznafjeu.fsf@szonett.ki.iif.hu> <20071125205150.4e49915f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <87lk8lflzf.fsf@szonett.ki.iif.hu> <20071127004445.a046f791.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <87prxwnh9g.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Ferenc Wagner Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:59713 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753764AbXK0KPE (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:15:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87prxwnh9g.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:56:43 +0100 Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > - raise patches against the latest Linus tree > > (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/) > > I thought it was better to change to git. Isn't it so? Yes, git is a bit more uptodate than the snapshots. But if that matters you were very unlucky. > SubmittingPatches has nothing to say about that... > Can I find collected best practices somewhere? Which tree, which > branch, how/when to rebase, format-patch, etc... gosh. Documentation/Submit*, http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt, http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html, other places. Probably people have written books about it by now. But don't sweat it - you're close enough ;)