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

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu May 05 2011 - 18:07:27 EST


On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:07:20 +0800 Harry Wei wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 09:59:55AM +0800, harryxiyou wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> Hi Randy,
> I have corrected this patch like following. This may be well
> for us.
>
> Thanks.
> BR.
> Harry Wei.
>
> From: Someone Something <fordhaivat@xxxxxxxxx>


Linus tells me that we don't want fake names or email addresses in
the development tree, so this won't do.

Harry, can you just send me a patch from you, with your Signed-off-by:
so that I can apply it, please?


> Signed-off-by: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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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