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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Update old Mini-HOWTO for ftrace
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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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