From 7de3369c14b67fe77d8b5f65171bb3a3b4f371ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:46:59 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] doc: SubmitChecklist, add ioctls, remove OSDL reference If a patch adds ioctls, then Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt should also be updated. Remove reference to the OSDL PLM build farm. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/SubmitChecklist | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist index 78a9168ff377..1053a56be3b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist +++ b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ kernel patches. 2: Passes allnoconfig, allmodconfig 3: Builds on multiple CPU architectures by using local cross-compile tools - or something like PLM at OSDL. + or some other build farm. 4: ppc64 is a good architecture for cross-compilation checking because it tends to use `unsigned long' for 64-bit quantities. @@ -88,3 +88,6 @@ kernel patches. 24: All memory barriers {e.g., barrier(), rmb(), wmb()} need a comment in the source code that explains the logic of what they are doing and why. + +25: If any ioctl's are added by the patch, then also update + Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt.