Re: Fix for shared flat binary format in 2.6.30

["John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>]

>>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

Linus> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>> This fixes a crash in 2.6.30 with shared flat binaries.  prepare_binfmt now
>> requires a cred pointer to be set up, which isn't done in binfmt_flat.c.

Linus> This has so many bugs in patch submission that I literally
Linus> almost gave up despite it being a trivial patch.

I just recently submitted a patch, and it took me a while to figure
out a git flow for stupid, simple patches so that I, a moron, could
understand it.  Here's what I've documented.  Maybe it should be added
to Documentation/SubmittingPatches so that people like me, who only
rarely use git for anything, can use it to submit stuff properly?

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# References
http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-format-patch.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html


# One time commands
> apt-get install git-email
> git config --global user.name "John Stoffel"
> git config --global user.email "john@stoffel.org"

# Only to be done infrequently
> mkdir /var/tmp/git-tree
> cd /var/tmp/git-tree
> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6



# Make a new branch <branch> for the patch you're doing.  In this
  case, we'll do 'sym_hipd-ratelimit'

> git checkout -b sym_hipd-ratelimit

# Now edit the file

> vi drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c
> git commit -a

# Put in a simple message of a line or two.

    ratelimit parity error reporting, which helps alot on bootup over serial
    console when you get 10,000+ lines of this message.

# Now exit the editor

# Check the commit, which is the most recent one by default

> git log -1

# See the actual patch with:

> git diff master..HEAD

# Make a patch you can send out, including any CC: and the signoff (-s)

> git format-patch --cc=linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org --cc=stable@kernel.org -s
0001-ratelimit-parity-error-reporting-which-helps-alot-on.patch

# Now look the patch over and see if you need to edit the subject or
# anything

# In this case, I don't like the commit message
vi 0001-ratelimit-parity-error-reporting-which-helps-alot-on.patch

# Now do a dry run to send the email
> git send-email --dry-run --to=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 0001-ratelimit-parity-error-reporting-which-helps-alot-on.patch

# Looks good, send for real
> git send-email --to=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 0001-ratelimit-parity-error-reporting-which-helps-alot-on.patch


# Cleanup, got back to the main branch and merge in our change, just
# for fun

> git branch master
> git merge sym_hipd-ratelimit