From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262338AbVGZXLu (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:11:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262336AbVGZXLn (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:11:43 -0400 Received: from chretien.genwebhost.com ([209.59.175.22]:21615 "EHLO chretien.genwebhost.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262311AbVGZWgh (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:36:37 -0400 Message-ID: <16727.134.134.136.2.1122417419.squirrel@chretien.genwebhost.com> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:36:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.12 1/1] docs: updated some code docs From: "Randy Dunlap" To: "Xose Vazquez Perez" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-ClamAntiVirus-Scanner: This mail is clean X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - chretien.genwebhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - xenotime.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Xose Vazquez Perez said: > Updated docs about how to write and submit patches/code. > Parts of this should conflict with a patch in -mm from a few weeks ago. then I check and don't see it there.... hrm, wonder what happened to it. -Separate each logical change into its own patch. +Separate each _logical changes_ into its own patch. change or drop "each" and change "its own patch" to "a single patch file." On the other hand, if you make a single change to numerous files, -group those changes into a single patch. Thus a single logical change -is contained within a single patch. +group those changes into a single patch. Thus single logical changes +are contained within a single patch. It's better in the original form. +Do not send more than 15 patches at once to the vger mailing lists!!! Only in one place, please. -- ~Randy