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2 | 1 | First up, some basics about the source code control tool that the Linux
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3 | 2 | kernel uses, git. Git can be found in any Linux distro these days, and
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4 | 3 | there are numerous good tutorials on how to use it and set it up
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| -available on the web. One good one is comes within git itself, and can |
| 4 | +available on the web. One good one comes within git itself, and can |
6 | 5 | be read by running:
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7 | 6 | $ man gittutorial
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8 | 7 | after you have installed git on your machine.
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118 | 117 | The drivers in the drivers/staging/ directory all usually have coding
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119 | 118 | style issues as they were developed by people not familiar with the
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| -Linux kernel guidelines. One of the first thing that needs to be done |
| 119 | +Linux kernel guidelines. One of the first things that needs to be done |
121 | 120 | to the code, is to fix it up to follow the correct rules.
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123 | 122 | And this is where you come in, by running the checkpatch.pl tool, you
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368 | 367 | The first line of the change, is a one line summary of what part of the
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369 | 368 | kernel the change is for, and very briefly, what it does:
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| - USB: otg: Fix bug on remove path without tranceiver |
| 369 | + USB: otg: Fix bug on remove path without transceiver |
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372 | 371 | Then comes a more descriptive paragraph that explains why the change is
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373 | 372 | needed:
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518 | 517 | notified. This script is called, 'get_maintainer.pl', and is also in
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519 | 518 | the scripts/ subdirectory in the kernel source tree. This script looks
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520 | 519 | at the files you have modified in the patch, and matches it up with the
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| -information in the MAINTAINTERS file in the kernel source tree that |
| 520 | +information in the MAINTAINERS file in the kernel source tree that |
522 | 521 | describes who is responsible for what portion of the kernel, as well as
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523 | 522 | looking at the past history of the files being modified, in order to
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524 | 523 | come up with the names and email addresses of the people, and mailing
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