Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Update old Mini-HOWTO for ftrace | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:37:14 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 01:32 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > GeunSik, > > On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, GeunSik Lim wrote: > > > Sorry, > > I mistake because I don't understand how to submit patch exactly. > > To submit a patch you need to have: > > 1) useful subject line > > [PATCH] subsystem: what does the patch do > > subsystem in your care is: ftrace > > 2) useful patch description > > explains what the patch does. Which bug/problem it fixes or which > enhancement it provides > > Look at the git log. Each commit has an (more or lesss) usefull > description, but you get the idea. If you see a confusing or > cryptic description you need way more time to figure out what the > patch does or what it is supposed to do. > > 3) Your Signed-off-by > > Signed-off-by is the certificate of origin as described in > > Documentation/SubmittingPatches > > You can only add your own Signed-off-by. You never can add the > Signed-off-by of some one else. > > > I just appended below "singned-off" contents for convenience. > > Sorry again. > > > > Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <leemgs1@gmail.com> > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> > > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > > That's how it might look later on. It would say: > > GeunSik Lim wrote the patch > Steven Rostedt picked it up from your mail and sent it to Ingo
Please send to my rostedt@goodmis.org account. From now on I'm using that as my Signed-off-by and keep Red Hat as the author. I'm about to travel and I do not read my Red Hat email while I'm out.
I'll pick this patch up now before I leave.
Thanks,
-- Steve
> Ingo Molnar received it from Steven's mail and applied it > > There is no way for you to forsee how your patch will be picked up and > propagated. It might go via Andrew Morton or directly to Linus. Ok ? > > So you only add your own Signed-off-by. > > Hope that helps. Thanks, > > tglx
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