Re: [PATCH] Fixes a small error in Documentation/HOWTO

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:46:52 +0800 Li Zefan wrote:

> > Your updated link for HOWTO is just for linux-2.6.38. This link
> > should be up-to-date kernel code. So i have corrected your
> > patch like following.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > Best Regards.
> > Harry Wei.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Someone Something <fordhaivat@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
> 
> Did he sign the patch? If not, you can't do this, and Instead you
> must ask him for his SOB.
> 
> And I'll appreciate if you add:
> 
> 	From: Someone ...
> 
> because your change is not significant enough to make you the author
> of the patch.

Regardless of that latter part, we cannot merge the patch from SS,
like Xiaochen Wang said, since the name is false.


> > ---
> >  Documentation/HOWTO |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO
> > index 365bda9..81bc1a9 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/HOWTO
> > +++ b/Documentation/HOWTO
> > @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ tools.  One such tool that is particularly recommended is the Linux
> >  Cross-Reference project, which is able to present source code in a
> >  self-referential, indexed webpage format. An excellent up-to-date
> >  repository of the kernel code may be found at:
> > -	http://users.sosdg.org/~qiyong/lxr/
> > +	http://lxr.linux.no/+trees
> >  
> >  
> >  The development process


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~Randy
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