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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/SubmitChecklist')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmitChecklist | 20 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist index 1053a56be3b..da0382daa39 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist +++ b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist @@ -9,10 +9,16 @@ Documentation/SubmittingPatches and elsewhere regarding submitting Linux kernel patches. -1: Builds cleanly with applicable or modified CONFIG options =y, =m, and +1: If you use a facility then #include the file that defines/declares + that facility. Don't depend on other header files pulling in ones + that you use. + +2: Builds cleanly with applicable or modified CONFIG options =y, =m, and =n. No gcc warnings/errors, no linker warnings/errors. -2: Passes allnoconfig, allmodconfig +2b: Passes allnoconfig, allmodconfig + +2c: Builds successfully when using O=builddir 3: Builds on multiple CPU architectures by using local cross-compile tools or some other build farm. @@ -91,3 +97,13 @@ kernel patches. 25: If any ioctl's are added by the patch, then also update Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt. + +26: If your modified source code depends on or uses any of the kernel + APIs or features that are related to the following kconfig symbols, + then test multiple builds with the related kconfig symbols disabled + and/or =m (if that option is available) [not all of these at the + same time, just various/random combinations of them]: + + CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_SYSFS, CONFIG_PROC_FS, CONFIG_INPUT, CONFIG_PCI, + CONFIG_BLOCK, CONFIG_PM, CONFIG_HOTPLUG, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ, + CONFIG_NET, CONFIG_INET=n (but latter with CONFIG_NET=y) |