Hi Randy, On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 08:06:33PM -0700, Randy Graham wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to better understand how patches here make it into the > mainline. > Ok.
> I understand that patches here go to Dave Millers net-next repo, but when > or how often do they get merged into the mainline ? > First it's good to send the patches to this list, if somebody has improvements, fixes or other issues you need to change that. After this you can send it to net-next mailinglist and David Miller takes this patches and put it into his net-next repo(depends if all seems ok). Then David Miller sends a pull request to Linus and Linus merge it into mainline. I don't know the exact circle of this, visit kernel.org for more information. To make patches for linux-zigbee-devel: 1. Your patches MUST based on net-next branch, because David need to merge it. 2. You MUST create your patches with git. See git format-patch. 3. Before you send Patches you MUST run checkpatch on it. Checkpatch is a powerful perl script to check coding style issues. You can find it under scripts/checkpatch.pl in linux src tree. 3. The simplest way to send patches is the builtin mail-client into git. Checkout git send-email. > Also, suppose I want to use the latest patches in net-next, how do I go > about manually merging them myself into my own local kernel tree ? > Checkout [1] and create a branch on it with git. So that's a lot of git things, maybe just google it and take a git tutorial. [1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git - Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Linux-zigbee-devel mailing list Linux-zigbee-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-zigbee-devel
