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Jonathan Corbet 5c050fb963 docs: update the development process document
Here's a set of changes updating Documentation/development-process.  I have
update kernel releases and relevant statistics, added information for a
couple of tools, zapped some trailing white space, and generally tried to
make it more closely match the current state of affairs.

[Typo fixes from Joe Perches and Nicolas Kaiser incorporated]

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
2011-03-25 14:30:31 -06:00
Andres Salomon f830673f6a Documentation/development-process: more staging info
Document things that I would've liked to have known when submitting a driver
to gregkh for staging.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-18 15:00:47 -08:00
Andres Salomon e4fabad30e Documentation/development-process: use -next trees instead of staging
This is confusing, as we have "staging" trees for drivers/staging.  Call
them -next trees.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-18 15:00:47 -08:00
Justin P. Mattock 0ea6e61122 Documentation: update broken web addresses.
Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch
updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/*
Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult,
the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated.
Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching
on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address
to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
Randy Dunlap e6a591e58e Documentation/development-process: add staging & mmotm info
Update explanation of mmotm.
Add explanation of drivers/staging/.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-24 07:30:55 -07:00
Randy Dunlap ef0eba477e Documentation/development-process: add maintainers and git info
Add info on maintainers and persistent posting.
Update git home page.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-24 07:30:55 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet 5d98932ab0 docs: Encourage better changelogs in the development process document
Add a couple of paragraphs to the "patch formatting" section on how patches
should be described.  This text is shamelessly cribbed from suggestions
posted by Rusty Russell.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-06-04 10:32:49 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet d5b524327b Fix a typo in the development process document.
Reported-by: Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-01-08 16:32:13 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet 75b0214683 Add the development process document
This is an extended document intended to help interested developers, their
managers, and their employers work with the kernel development process.

This work was supported by the Linux Foundation.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16 11:51:30 -06:00