How to contribute to latest -rc kernel?

[Arvid Brodin]

On 2013-11-28 09:11, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Arvid Brodin <arvid.brodin at alten.se> writes:
>
>> I thought the subsystem -next trees was for the next release of Linux? I.e., what
>> goes into the net-next tree now will find its way into mainline at the next
>> release window, for linux-3.14-rc1?
>
> That's correct.
>
> If your series is for the networking subsystem *and* appropriate for an
> -rcX where X > 1, then it should be based on
>
>   https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/
>
> and you should indicate that you want it applied to "net" instead of
> "net-next".  I usually do that by including "net" in the subject prefix,
> like e. g.
>
>  Subject: [PATCH net] foo: fix obvious bug
>
> but there are no strict rules about how to do this AFAIK.
>
> Note that the whole series must be applicable to "net".  Don't be
> tempted to mix any features in there.  Split those out in a separate
> series instead and submit for "net-next".  If they depend on any of the
> changes you made to "net", then explain that dependency in the
> cover-letter.
>
> And yes, a cover-letter ("PATCH 0/X") is always a good idea when posting
> more than 1 patch in a series. Davem use them as pseudo-merge commits,
> so whatever you write there is even recorded in the history.  This is a
> good place to explain why the series should be applied to "net" if that
> isn't 103% obvious (sometimes you need to know a driver pretty well to
> understand why something is a bugfix and not a feature).
>
> I believe all this is explained in more detail in the
> Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt document Fan Du pointed you to.
> That's a good place to start.  There are some small differences between
> networking and most other subsystems, like comment style and stable
> submissions.  There's usually no problem if you miss those details in
> the beginning - you'll just have to fix it later.  But reading the FAQ
> will give you a head start.
>
>
> Bjørn
>

Thank you Bjørn for a great answer!

Thanks also to Fan Du for pointing to the netdev-FAQ.


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