linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger

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Date:	Mon, 4 Aug 2008 08:33:33 -0600 (MDT)
From:	jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com
To:	"Stefan Richter" <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com, "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger


OK,  Sounds like I get a D- on patch format submission.   I will rework
the patches, switch back to GPL2 (since I guess GPL 3 is still not there
yet) and clean up this list of issues.   ULONG, etc. is Microsoft syntax
for cross platform compatibility.  Since this is a LINUX SPECIFIC PATCH,
I'll rip out and rework the Gates-isms in the code.

All that aside, the damn works so at least folks can start using it while
I perform code beautification.

Jeff


> jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 13:36 -0600, jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This patch is formally submitted for consideration for inclusion in
>>>> the
>>>> base linux kernel.
>>>>
>>>> ftp://ftp.wolfmountaingroup.org/pub/mdb/mdb-2.6.26-ia32-08-02-08.patch
>>>
>>> Formally submitted patches should be sent to the list inline.
>>> Reviewing
>>> something on an FTP server just becomes that much harder.
>>>
>>> josh
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Submitted as inline patches.
>
> Some non-technical comments to the patch series:
>   - Each patch posting in a patch series should have an own Subject and
>     changelog which specifically describes the included patch.
>   - The Developer's Certificate of Origin is written simply as a single
>     line:
>     Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Vernon Merkey <email@...ress>
>     This line needs to be included in the changelog of each patch, i.e.
>     precedes the diff.  (Tools which harvest patches from mboxes are
>     trained to pick the changelog up from before the diff.)
>   - The MUA rewrapped some lines.
>   - File name and date of last change are redundant information and are
>     better left out of the source files.
>   - Understandably for a port from other kernels, there are clashes with
>     Linux kernel's coding style like CamelCase names, comment style,
>     indentations.
>   - Why define LONGLONG, WORD, BYTE and so on?  They could be plain
>     unsigned char etc., or u8 etc. if you like it brief.
>   - Boolean values should be the standard true and false, not locally
>     defined TRUE and FALSE.
>   - Usually the #include's are not collected in an intermediary header
>     (as in patch 7/25) but put directly into the files which require
>     a particular #include.
>
> I haven't looked in detail at the patches; it's far out of my area of
> experience...
> --
> Stefan Richter
> -=====-==--- =--- --=--
> http://arcgraph.de/sr/
>


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