Many thanks Alexandru!<br><br>Yes that helps alot! :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Alexandru Juncu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alex.juncu@rosedu.org">alex.juncu@rosedu.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:31 PM, <<a href="mailto:adhirramjiawan0@gmail.com">adhirramjiawan0@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi all!<br>
><br>
> I'm new to kernel development and I have just started learning how to create linux kernel patches.<br>
><br>
> I would like to know how the 'signing off' and 'acknowledgment' processes work?<br>
><br>
> 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?<br>
><br>
> Thanks in advance!<br>
> Adhir<br>
<br>
</div>Hello!<br>
<br>
Git and some scripts in the kernel tree help a lot.<br>
<br>
First of all, when you write a patch, you sign it off in your name<br>
(you can use the -s flag when issuing the git format-patch command),<br>
to take both credit and responsibility for what you wrote.<br>
<br>
The patch will be send to one or more mailing lists [0] or to some<br>
persons (top developers). To see who you should send it to, use the<br>
script from the linux tree called scripts/<a href="http://get_maintainer.pl" target="_blank">get_maintainer.pl</a>. Just run<br>
that scrip with your patch as the parameter. It will list the emails<br>
you should send to.<br>
<br>
Next, you can use the git send-mail command to send the patch itself<br>
to those emails.<br>
<br>
If your patch gets accepted by a main developer, (s)he will push the<br>
patch to the main branch, signing it off too.<br>
<br>
Do a git log on the linux tree and take a random commit and see the<br>
signed-off-by and acked-by lines and you can use Patchwork [1] or<br>
search through the mailing lists archives to to see who did what<br>
(everything is public).<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<br>
<br>
[0] <a href="http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html" target="_blank">http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html</a><br>
[1] <a href="http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/" target="_blank">http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/</a><br>
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Alexandru Juncu<br>
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