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author | Milan Lakhani <milan.lakhani@codethink.co.uk> | 2020-12-15 21:42:36 +0100 |
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committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2020-12-21 17:47:00 +0100 |
commit | 27ab873e0ca640cbe1375aa5a0cdd0607cb6bbdc (patch) | |
tree | 99bde03bd9ed437092a43e9d5966932346b0184a /Documentation/process | |
parent | docs: submitting-patches: Trivial - fix grammatical error (diff) | |
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Documentation: process: Correct numbering
Renumber the steps in submit-checklist.rst as some numbers were skipped.
Signed-off-by: Milan Lakhani <milan.lakhani@codethink.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1608064956-5512-1-git-send-email-milan.lakhani@codethink.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst b/Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst index 1879f881c300..230ee42f872f 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst @@ -75,44 +75,44 @@ and elsewhere regarding submitting Linux kernel patches. 13) Has been build- and runtime tested with and without ``CONFIG_SMP`` and ``CONFIG_PREEMPT.`` -16) All codepaths have been exercised with all lockdep features enabled. +14) All codepaths have been exercised with all lockdep features enabled. -17) All new ``/proc`` entries are documented under ``Documentation/`` +15) All new ``/proc`` entries are documented under ``Documentation/`` -18) All new kernel boot parameters are documented in +16) All new kernel boot parameters are documented in ``Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst``. -19) All new module parameters are documented with ``MODULE_PARM_DESC()`` +17) All new module parameters are documented with ``MODULE_PARM_DESC()`` -20) All new userspace interfaces are documented in ``Documentation/ABI/``. +18) All new userspace interfaces are documented in ``Documentation/ABI/``. See ``Documentation/ABI/README`` for more information. Patches that change userspace interfaces should be CCed to linux-api@vger.kernel.org. -21) Check that it all passes ``make headers_check``. +19) Check that it all passes ``make headers_check``. -22) Has been checked with injection of at least slab and page-allocation +20) Has been checked with injection of at least slab and page-allocation failures. See ``Documentation/fault-injection/``. If the new code is substantial, addition of subsystem-specific fault injection might be appropriate. -23) Newly-added code has been compiled with ``gcc -W`` (use +21) Newly-added code has been compiled with ``gcc -W`` (use ``make EXTRA_CFLAGS=-W``). This will generate lots of noise, but is good for finding bugs like "warning: comparison between signed and unsigned". -24) Tested after it has been merged into the -mm patchset to make sure +22) Tested after it has been merged into the -mm patchset to make sure that it still works with all of the other queued patches and various changes in the VM, VFS, and other subsystems. -25) All memory barriers {e.g., ``barrier()``, ``rmb()``, ``wmb()``} need a +23) All memory barriers {e.g., ``barrier()``, ``rmb()``, ``wmb()``} need a comment in the source code that explains the logic of what they are doing and why. -26) If any ioctl's are added by the patch, then also update +24) If any ioctl's are added by the patch, then also update ``Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst``. -27) If your modified source code depends on or uses any of the kernel +25) If your modified source code depends on or uses any of the kernel APIs or features that are related to the following ``Kconfig`` symbols, then test multiple builds with the related ``Kconfig`` symbols disabled and/or ``=m`` (if that option is available) [not all of these at the |