Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Sep 2015 14:47:29 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [llvmlinux] percpu | bitmap issue? (Cannot boot on bare metal due to a kernel NULL pointer dereference) |
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* Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > * Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> From my side... How can the correbolation be improved...? > > > > The best workflow would be for someone to send patches that are considered > > clean enough. > > What do you mean by "patches that are considered clean"? > > "Clean" in the sense of is-not-a-hackery and/or > patch-does-not-follow-Linux-kernel-development-guidelines [1]?
Both in the end.
> Oh, if we all would follow Peter H. blog-article "On commit messages" [2]. > ( /me dreams of a better world. )
So if _you_ start sending those patches then you need to fix known problems. You don't have to keep the patches as-is as you found them, you are free to fix them, open source and all that.
Just start simple, with a single, obvious looking patch, and we'll see from there on?
Thanks,
Ingo
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