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@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ of conventions and procedures which are used in the posting of patches;
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following them will make life much easier for everybody involved. This
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document will attempt to cover these expectations in reasonable detail;
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more information can also be found in the files process/submitting-patches.rst,
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-process/submitting-drivers.rst, and process/submit-checklist.rst in the kernel documentation
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-directory.
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+process/submitting-drivers.rst, and process/submit-checklist.rst in the kernel
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+documentation directory.
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When to post
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@@ -198,8 +198,8 @@ pass it to diff with the "-X" option.
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The tags mentioned above are used to describe how various developers have
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been associated with the development of this patch. They are described in
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-detail in the process/submitting-patches.rst document; what follows here is a brief
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-summary. Each of these lines has the format:
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+detail in the process/submitting-patches.rst document; what follows here is a
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+brief summary. Each of these lines has the format:
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::
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@@ -210,8 +210,8 @@ The tags in common use are:
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- Signed-off-by: this is a developer's certification that he or she has
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the right to submit the patch for inclusion into the kernel. It is an
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agreement to the Developer's Certificate of Origin, the full text of
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- which can be found in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. Code without a
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- proper signoff cannot be merged into the mainline.
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+ which can be found in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. Code
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+ without a proper signoff cannot be merged into the mainline.
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- Co-developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer
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along with the original author. This is useful at times when multiple
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@@ -226,8 +226,8 @@ The tags in common use are:
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it to work.
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- Reviewed-by: the named developer has reviewed the patch for correctness;
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- see the reviewer's statement in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for more
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- detail.
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+ see the reviewer's statement in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
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+ for more detail.
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- Reported-by: names a user who reported a problem which is fixed by this
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patch; this tag is used to give credit to the (often underappreciated)
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