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| 1.. _submitchecklist: 2 3Linux Kernel patch submission checklist 4~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5 6Here are some basic things that developers should do if they want to see their 7kernel patch submissions accepted more quickly. 8 --- 93 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 102 that it still works with all of the other queued patches and various 103 changes in the VM, VFS, and other subsystems. 104 10525) All memory barriers {e.g., ``barrier()``, ``rmb()``, ``wmb()``} need a 106 comment in the source code that explains the logic of what they are doing 107 and why. 108 10926) If any ioctl's are added by the patch, then also update | 1.. _submitchecklist: 2 3Linux Kernel patch submission checklist 4~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5 6Here are some basic things that developers should do if they want to see their 7kernel patch submissions accepted more quickly. 8 --- 93 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 102 that it still works with all of the other queued patches and various 103 changes in the VM, VFS, and other subsystems. 104 10525) All memory barriers {e.g., ``barrier()``, ``rmb()``, ``wmb()``} need a 106 comment in the source code that explains the logic of what they are doing 107 and why. 108 10926) If any ioctl's are added by the patch, then also update |
| 110 ``Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst``. | 110 ``Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst``. |
| 111 11227) If your modified source code depends on or uses any of the kernel 113 APIs or features that are related to the following ``Kconfig`` symbols, 114 then test multiple builds with the related ``Kconfig`` symbols disabled 115 and/or ``=m`` (if that option is available) [not all of these at the 116 same time, just various/random combinations of them]: 117 118 ``CONFIG_SMP``, ``CONFIG_SYSFS``, ``CONFIG_PROC_FS``, ``CONFIG_INPUT``, ``CONFIG_PCI``, ``CONFIG_BLOCK``, ``CONFIG_PM``, ``CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ``, 119 ``CONFIG_NET``, ``CONFIG_INET=n`` (but latter with ``CONFIG_NET=y``). | 111 11227) If your modified source code depends on or uses any of the kernel 113 APIs or features that are related to the following ``Kconfig`` symbols, 114 then test multiple builds with the related ``Kconfig`` symbols disabled 115 and/or ``=m`` (if that option is available) [not all of these at the 116 same time, just various/random combinations of them]: 117 118 ``CONFIG_SMP``, ``CONFIG_SYSFS``, ``CONFIG_PROC_FS``, ``CONFIG_INPUT``, ``CONFIG_PCI``, ``CONFIG_BLOCK``, ``CONFIG_PM``, ``CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ``, 119 ``CONFIG_NET``, ``CONFIG_INET=n`` (but latter with ``CONFIG_NET=y``). |