Which leaves my 3rd question. Should I rather post them here or on the website 
trac? Is one prefered to the other?

.. Bud

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 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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