[Linux-kernel-mentees] Patch guidelines and tips

Sheriff Esseson sheriffesseson at gmail.com
Fri Jun 28 08:39:15 UTC 2019


On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 06:48:33AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> 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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Please is the filesystem docs available or taken?

thanks,
   Sheriff


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