Re: [PATCH] Fixes a small error in Documentation/HOWTO

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Apr 04 2011 - 14:18:37 EST


On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:46:52 +0800 Li Zefan wrote:

> > Your updated link for HOWTO is just for linux-2.6.38. This link
> > should be up-to-date kernel code. So i have corrected your
> > patch like following.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Best Regards.
> > Harry Wei.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Someone Something <fordhaivat@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Did he sign the patch? If not, you can't do this, and Instead you
> must ask him for his SOB.
>
> And I'll appreciate if you add:
>
> From: Someone ...
>
> because your change is not significant enough to make you the author
> of the patch.

Regardless of that latter part, we cannot merge the patch from SS,
like Xiaochen Wang said, since the name is false.


> > ---
> > Documentation/HOWTO | 2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO
> > index 365bda9..81bc1a9 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/HOWTO
> > +++ b/Documentation/HOWTO
> > @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ tools. One such tool that is particularly recommended is the Linux
> > Cross-Reference project, which is able to present source code in a
> > self-referential, indexed webpage format. An excellent up-to-date
> > repository of the kernel code may be found at:
> > - http://users.sosdg.org/~qiyong/lxr/
> > + http://lxr.linux.no/+trees
> >
> >
> > The development process


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~Randy
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