From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Any value in having a netdev FAQ?
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:42:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1374007355.1949.21.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130716025954.GC26761@windriver.com>
On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 22:59 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Q: Any other tips to help ensure my net/net-next patch gets OK'd?
>
> A: Attention to detail. You can start with checkpatch.pl, but do not
> be mindlessly robotic in doing so.
Suggest checkpatch.pl --strict because there are some
style elements (like multi-line statement alignment)
where checkpatch bleats with --strict that are commonly
used in net and drivers/net.
email the proposed patch to yourself and make sure it
applies cleanly before sending it to the netdev mailing
list.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-16 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-16 2:59 [RFC] Any value in having a netdev FAQ? Paul Gortmaker
2013-07-16 20:05 ` David Miller
2013-07-16 20:34 ` Darren Hart
2013-07-16 20:35 ` Darren Hart
2013-07-17 15:08 ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-07-16 20:32 ` Darren Hart
2013-07-17 15:18 ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-07-17 15:56 ` Joe Perches
2013-07-18 18:21 ` Benjamin Poirier
2013-07-16 20:42 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2013-07-18 1:55 ` Darren Hart
2013-07-18 13:33 ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-07-18 17:53 ` Rick Jones
2013-07-18 2:32 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
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