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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Rewrite Documentation/SubmittingPatches.
On 07/13/2012 09:45 AM, Stefan Beller wrote:
> This updates the documentation on how to create patches and send
> these to the kernel mailing list.
>
> The documentation before was written in times before git was there,
> so the crafting of the patch needed to be done manually by diff -up
> in the right directory.
>
> This patch aims at simplifying the patch sending process, without
> breaking the output results.

This patch is whitespace damaged (wordwrapped at the @@ lines), which is
either ironic or unfortunate. (After Alanis Morisette, I can't tell
anymore.)

> A discussion can be found at
> https://plus.google.com/111049168280159033135/posts/ekAxK9achsA
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik jgarzik@pobox.com

But other than that Jeff's objection was my big one, and that's
addressed in v2, so:

Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>

Rob
--
GNU/Linux isn't: Linux=GPLv2, GNU=GPLv3+, they can't share code.
Either it's "mere aggregation", or a license violation. Pick one.


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