Many thanks Alexandru! Yes that helps alot! :)
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Alexandru Juncu <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:31 PM, <[email protected]> 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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