Sending off kernel patches

[Adhir Ramjiawan]

Many thanks Alexandru!

Yes that helps alot! :)

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Alexandru Juncu <alex.juncu at rosedu.org>wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:31 PM,  <adhirramjiawan0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I'm new to kernel development and I have just started learning how to
> create linux kernel patches.
> >
> > I would like to know how the 'signing off' and 'acknowledgment'
> processes work?
> >
> > I'm assuming that I as the patch author I need to sign off, but who do I
> send the file to so that it can be acknowledged? Do I need to find an
> individual who's actively involved in kernel development?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> > Adhir
>
> Hello!
>
> Git and some scripts in the kernel tree help a lot.
>
> First of all, when you write a patch, you sign it off in your name
> (you can use the -s flag when issuing the git format-patch command),
> to take both credit and responsibility for what you wrote.
>
> The patch will be send to one or more mailing lists [0] or to some
> persons (top developers). To see who you should send it to, use the
> script from the linux tree called scripts/get_maintainer.pl. Just run
> that scrip with your patch as the parameter. It will list the emails
> you should send to.
>
> Next, you can use the git send-mail command to send the patch itself
> to those emails.
>
> If your patch gets accepted by a main developer, (s)he will push the
> patch to the main branch, signing it off too.
>
> Do a git log on the linux tree and take a random commit and see the
> signed-off-by and acked-by lines and you can use Patchwork [1] or
> search through the mailing lists archives to to see who did what
> (everything is public).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> [0] http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html
> [1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/
>
> --
> Alexandru Juncu
>
> ROSEdu
> http://rosedu.org
>
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