Added contribution guideline for adding tags
when sending patches that have been raised by
coverity
Signed-off-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovace...@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agra...@nxp.com>
---
doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
index 64408e7..59d2aaf 100644
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
@@ -257,6 +257,27 @@ tags for who reported, suggested, tested and reviewed the
patch being
posted. Please refer to the `Tested, Acked and Reviewed by`_ section.
+Coverity Related Patch Fixes:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+`Coverity
<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/dpdk-data-plane-development-kit>`_ is a
tool for
+static code analysis. It is used as a cloud-based service used to scan the
+DPDK source code, and alert developers of any potential defects in the source
code.
+When fixing an issue found by Coverity, the patch must contain a Coverity
issue ID in the
+body of the commit message. For example::
+
+
+ doc: fix some parameter description
+
+ Update the docs, fixing description of some parameter.
+
+ Coverity issue: 12345
+ Fixes: abcdefgh1234 ("doc: add some parameter")
+ Cc: aut...@example.com
+
+ Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.sm...@example.com>
+
+
Creating Patches
----------------
--
2.9.5
