On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 19:38, Bud <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just read on
> https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/SubmittingPatches
>
> that patches should be delivered as follows
>
> Send a mail to openwrt-devel <at> lists.openwrt.org with the following
> contents:
> 1. [PATCH] <short description> in the Subject, followed by:
> 2. (optional) a longer description of your patch in the message body
> 3. Signed-off-by: Your name <y...@…>
> 4. Your actual patch, inline, not word wrapped or whitespace mangled.
>
> Why is it so? Is there an automated process integrating them?
The reasoning behind this is actually mentionted 2 lines below the
lines you're quoting:
to mimic the Linux kernel patch submission process.
> What about additions (new files) that are not version controlled yet?
Diff handles them fine (difference against empty/nonexistent file).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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