[Linux-kernel-mentees] Patch guidelines and tips
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
mchehab at kernel.org
Thu Jun 27 09:48:33 UTC 2019
Em Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:38:31 -0600
Shuah Khan <skhan at linuxfoundation.org> escreveu:
> Mentees,
>
> Thanks for your active participation in working towards the
> required contributions. A few tips and guidelines to make
> this experience productive for us all.
>
> - Before you start working on a task, please check the archive
> first to see if a patch is already in progress. This avoids
> duplicated efforts.
>
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/linux-kernel-mentees/
>
> - For documentation tasks, start small with picking one file for
> conversion first. You don't have to work on all the files in a
> directory in one step. Working on a single file helps you get
> over the learning curve and then you can take on larger set of
> files as needed.
>
> If in doubt, send email to maintainers - starting with me if you
> prefer.
Please feel free to send e-mail to me with regards to documentation
tasks. I'm open to help with that.
Also, I have a big series of documentation patches under discussion
for the merge process. So, better to check with me before trying to
work on something that was already done.
>
> These steps are all documented on the project page. Don't forget to
> do the following when you send patches:
>
> - Please copy mailing lists and maintainers/developers suggested by
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl
>
> - Please run scripts/checkpatch.pl before sending the patch.
>
> - Compile and test - Documentation compile steps have been documented.
>
> thanks,
> -- Shuah
>
>
>
>
Thanks,
Mauro
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