From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937107AbYEUUHS (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 16:07:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757051AbYEUUHE (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 16:07:04 -0400 Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.31]:40620 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757083AbYEUUHD (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 16:07:03 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nJ4tB0HFdRZU+3SrhondrBvBUOcBRfejs6fekdmnsaVC3Ps+iSMQ8wjqf+o0MIphnu83+8IfHiuj1HElAlWYjIuc0Tky0PmHV6qGNOKOkwBylA7blvNAXf3an2XiZlTLXynAiWSNx/pZVAuvnuGKsNi2xYQDSgvoe6AmppyxxKI= Message-ID: <9a8748490805211306l50b8411ax4462be18c94ca065@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:06:55 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) Cc: "Cyrill Gorcunov" , rdunlap@xenotime.net, tytso@mit.edu, hch@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net In-Reply-To: <20080521125449.344a445d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <12113495282137-git-send-email-kongjianjun@gmail.com> <20080521083413.GM28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080521015037.add0b78e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080521103206.GA24545@infradead.org> <20080521120939.GF8581@mit.edu> <20080521104644.5b6f4e63.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080521185725.GD6932@cvg> <20080521123355.b34f07ad.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20080521194522.GA13916@cvg> <20080521125449.344a445d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2008/5/21 Andrew Morton : > On Wed, 21 May 2008 23:45:22 +0400 > Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > >> Anrew, Randy, you just wrote KernelNewbiesGuide I think ;) There are >> lot of internet sites which could help with what-to-do, and linux-mm.org >> and kernel.bugzilla.org and more BUT what I've tried to say is that we >> really have such document inside kernel tree (it could be really short) >> like: >> >> Which patches are not good for sending to LKML >> ---------------------------------------------- >> >> - Plain whitespace cleanup >> >> Some rules just *known* only if you have an experience in LKML mailing >> but if someone is sending _first_ patch he ever made he just doesn't know >> that. That is all. So we need not a link to some inet resource BUT written >> in file inside of kernel tree. But that is just my (personal) opinion. > > Yes, a general GettingStarted document would probably be useful. > It would hopefully have more what-to-do content than what-not-to-do. I'm in the process of trying to write an initial draft of just such a document right now. I'll post it once I'm a bit more done (gimme an hour or two). -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html