linux-kernel - Re: What is the right practice to get new code upstream( was Fwd: [patch] a simple hardware detector for latency as well as throughput ver. 0.1.0)

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Message-ID: <CAJRGBZz+MHykCnBNoJvdReOAmXEJTAHfEt8cqgzerefhKjiQfw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:57:18 +0800
From:	Luming Yu <luming.yu@...il.com>
To:	Jimmy Thrasibule <thrasibule.jimmy@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What is the right practice to get new code upstream( was Fwd:
 [patch] a simple hardware detector for latency as well as throughput ver. 0.1.0)

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Jimmy Thrasibule
<thrasibule.jimmy@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 20:57 +0800, Luming Yu wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I must have forgotten cc key persons. Sorry to make noise again.
>> I need to know what the right practice is to get your attention to
>> accept a new tool upstream like this one.
> Might good to have a look at the following:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/content/how-participate-linux-community

Thanks for these pointers, they are useful.
My intention is to push the initial working version into -mm.Then
continuously improve bits by bits. The first version works at minimal
level as a tool. So I requested it merges into linux-next or -mm.
as the first step to find way upstream. Any advise on this?

>
> Regards,
> Jimmy
>
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