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Greg KH

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More options Mar 4 2005, 10:50 pm

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From: Greg KH <g...@kroah.com>

Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 04:50:10 +0100

Local: Fri, Mar 4 2005 10:50 pm

Subject: [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree

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Anything else anyone can think of? Any objections to any of these?
I based them off of Linus's original list.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and what ones are not, into
the "linux-release" tree.

- It can not bigger than 100 lines, with context.
- It must fix only one thing.
- It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, "This could be a
problem..." type thing.)
- It must fix a problem that causes a build error (but not for things
marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, or a real security issue.
- No "theoretical race condition" issues, unless an explanation of how
the race can be exploited.
- It can not contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes,
whitespace cleanups, etc.)
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