We are seeing increasing levels of minor patch style violations in submissions
to the mailing lists as well as making it into the tree.  These detract from
the quality of the submission and cause unnessary work for reviewers.

As a first step package up the current state of the patch style checker and
include it in the kernel tree.  Add instructions suggesting running it on
submissions.  This adds version v0.01 of the checkpatch.pl script.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: NJoel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It seems that we need to clarify that a patch series is a series of related
patches rather than "here are some of my patches as multiple (numbered)
emails."
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This changes a few mentions of my email address to point to the new one,
leaving things like old copyright messages alone.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patches and explain how to
fix mozilla.  Thunderbird has the similar options.
Signed-off-by: NKirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This cleans up SubmittingPatches a bit.
Signed-off-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The DCO does not mean anything if we allow anonymous contributors to the
kernel.  As this is an open source project, we need to do everything in the
open.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

A few cleanups to SubmittingPatches:
- mention SubmitChecklist
- remove mention of my simple patch script tools
- remove last-updated line
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Based on comments from Randy Dunlap on my previous commit
5b0ed2c6Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add desired 'diffstat' options to use for kernel patches.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

While looking for where to send trivial patches, I found old contact
information in Documentation/SubmittingPatches.
Signed-off-by: NKees Cook <kees@outflux.net>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Improve explanation of the Subject line fields in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches Canonical Patch Format.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Document more details of patch format such as the "from" line
and the "---" marker line, and provide more references for
patch guidelines.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Improve the likelihood that someone submitting a patch will notify the
MAN-PAGES maintainer.

This is a follow-up to comments on the July 29 lkml email thread: "Broke nice
range for RLIMIT NICE"
Signed-off-by: NPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Corrections to Documentation/Submitting{Drivers,Patches}
- update LANANA info.
- fix some typos
- update 2.2 kernel maintainer info.
- update 'dontdiff' info.
- update URLs for patch scripts
- add Trivial Patch Monkey URL
- add more references for submitting patches
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Since the Trivial Patch Monkey is mentioned both in steps 4.  and 5., I
removed it from step4 (Select e-mail destination), since it should go under
'Select your CC list'.
Signed-off-by: NCosmin Nicolaescu <cos@camelot.homelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDomen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This adds a clause that notes explicitly that the person doing the
sign-off knows that the project (and his sign-off) is public and will
possibly get archived and re-distributed.

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!