Wolfram Sang wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 03:29:35PM +0100, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: >> Hello, >> >> as promised, I composed and committed a little README on how to get your >> Socket-CAN changes into the Linux kernel or BerliOS repo. See: >> >> http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/socketcan/trunk/README.submitting-patches >> >> Any comment, feedback, correction or improvement is welcome. For your >> convenience, I have attached the file below: >> >> Wolfgang. >> >> >> How to get your Socket-CAN changes into the Linux kernel or BerliOS repo >> ======================================================================== >> >> The Socket-CAN repository at BerliOS [1] allows to build *out-of-tree* >> Socket-CAN kernel modules and is mainly useful for old kernel versions >> and development. Currently it is based on Subversion but we want to >> switch to GIT sooner or later. We try to keep the BerliOS repo in sync >> with the kernel by backporting patches from the kernel and vice versa. >> >> If your changes are already mature in terms of functionality and code >> quality, you may want to get them immetiately into the mainline kernel. > > immediately > >> If you feel that's not already the case and some more discussion and >> feedback is required, it's useful to prepare and publish a patch for the >> BerliOS repo first. Also the requirements for acceptance are not that >> strict than for kernel inclusion. If kernel inclusion is your primary >> goal, it makes sense to start preparing patches for the kernel >> straightaway. An eventual backport to the BerliOS repo is usually quite >> simply and does not require a full review, reducing at the same time the > > /simply/simple
Both fixed. > >> maintainers workload. >> >> Patches for kernel inclusion: >> ---------------------------- >> >> For kernel inclusion you need to prepare patches against David Millers >> "net-next-2.6" GIT tree, which you can get as shown below: >> >> $ git clone \ >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6.git > > I think the 80 columns-rule is really inconvenient here. Well, the "\" is not that bad. Wolfgang. _______________________________________________ Socketcan-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/socketcan-users
