linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Update old Mini-HOWTO for ftrace

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Message-Id: <1239064634.4753.10.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:37:14 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	GeunSik Lim <leemgs1@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update old Mini-HOWTO for ftrace


On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 01:32 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> GeunSik,
> 
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, GeunSik Lim wrote:
> 
> > Sorry,
> > I mistake because I don't understand how to submit patch exactly.
> 
> To submit a patch you need to have:
> 
> 1) useful subject line
> 
>    [PATCH] subsystem: what does the patch do
> 
>    subsystem in your care is: ftrace
> 
> 2) useful patch description
> 
>    explains what the patch does. Which bug/problem it fixes or which
>    enhancement it provides
> 
>    Look at the git log. Each commit has an (more or lesss) usefull
>    description, but you get the idea. If you see a confusing or
>    cryptic description you need way more time to figure out what the
>    patch does or what it is supposed to do.
> 
> 3) Your Signed-off-by
> 
>    Signed-off-by is the certificate of origin as described in
>    
>    Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> 
>    You can only add your own Signed-off-by. You never can add the
>    Signed-off-by of some one else.
> 
> > I just appended below "singned-off" contents for convenience.
> > Sorry again.
> > 
> >    Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <leemgs1@...il.com>
> >    Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
> >    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> 
> That's how it might look later on. It would say:
> 
>        GeunSik Lim  	 wrote the patch
>        Steven Rostedt 	 picked it up from your mail and sent it to Ingo

Please send to my rostedt@...dmis.org account. From now on I'm using
that as my Signed-off-by and keep Red Hat as the author. I'm about to
travel and I do not read my Red Hat email while I'm out.

I'll pick this patch up now before I leave.

Thanks,

-- Steve

>        Ingo Molnar 	 received it from Steven's mail and applied it
> 
> There is no way for you to forsee how your patch will be picked up and
> propagated. It might go via Andrew Morton or directly to Linus. Ok ?
> 
> So you only add your own Signed-off-by.
> 
> Hope that helps. Thanks,
> 
>      tglx

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