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Chris L Mason |
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# Here all the valid metadata tags for suse patches are recorded. Patches
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Chris L Mason |
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# in the SUSE kernel repository must have a Subject tag, and there must
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Michal Suchanek |
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# be a suse email address in a From:, Signed-off-by: or Acked-by: tag.
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Chris L Mason |
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#
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Chris L Mason |
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# Every patch in the SUSE repository must have a descriptive comment in
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Chris L Mason |
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# addition to any tags present
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Chris L Mason |
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#
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Chris L Mason |
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# The original patch author
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Chris L Mason |
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#
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Neil F Brown |
e98509 |
From:
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Chris L Mason |
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Chris L Mason |
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# a brief one line description of the patch
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Chris L Mason |
e2d213 |
#
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Neil F Brown |
e98509 |
Subject:
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Chris L Mason |
79142a |
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Chris L Mason |
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# Signed off by means that you have reviewed the patch for correctness
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Chris L Mason |
79142a |
# Multiple signed-off-by tags are allowed
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Chris L Mason |
e2d213 |
#
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Neil F Brown |
e98509 |
Signed-off-by:
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Chris L Mason |
e00945 |
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Chris L Mason |
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# Acked-by is not as strong as signed-off-by. This would be used when
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Chris L Mason |
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# the patch has already been signed off by someone you trust.
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Chris L Mason |
79142a |
# Multiple acked-by tags are allowed
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Chris L Mason |
e2d213 |
#
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Neil F Brown |
e98509 |
Acked-by:
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Chris L Mason |
79142a |
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Chris L Mason |
ba7397 |
# Patch-mainline indicates which version of Linus' kernel includes the patch.
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Chris L Mason |
ba7397 |
# Patch-mainline has a few special values for the first word of the tag.
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Chris L Mason |
ba7397 |
# These are used by scripts to check on the status of patches in the
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Chris L Mason |
ba7397 |
# repository, reminding us to send them into mainline.
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Chris L Mason |
ba7397 |
#
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Chris L Mason |
ba7397 |
# "never" indicates the patch will never be sent to mainline. A short
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Chris L Mason |
ba7397 |
# explanation should follow
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Chris L Mason |
ba7397 |
#
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Chris L Mason |
ba7397 |
# "submitted yyyy-mm-dd" gives the date the patch was sent for inclusion.
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Chris L Mason |
ba7397 |
#
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Chris L Mason |
ba7397 |
# examples:
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Chris L Mason |
ba7397 |
# Patch-mainline: never. fixes bugs in SUSE specific code
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Chris L Mason |
ba7397 |
# Patch-mainline: submitted 2004-11-01
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Thomas Zimmermann |
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# Patch-mainline: v2.6.10-rc1 any free form text is valid after the version
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Chris L Mason |
ba7397 |
#
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Neil F Brown |
e98509 |
Patch-mainline:
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Chris L Mason |
e00945 |
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Chris L Mason |
e2d213 |
# bug numbers corresponding to this patch. Any bugzilla database other
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Chris L Mason |
e2d213 |
# then SUSE needs to have ids qualified by some string (ie LTC11210)
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Chris L Mason |
e2d213 |
# Multiple bug numbers should be put into a single tag:
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Chris L Mason |
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# References: 32768 LTC1002 OSDL3080
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Chris L Mason |
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#
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Neil F Brown |
e98509 |
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Neil F Brown |
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References:
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Neil F Brown |
e98509 |
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