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Corrections to Documentation/Submitting{Drivers,Patches}
- update LANANA info.
- fix some typos
- update 2.2 kernel maintainer info.
- update 'dontdiff' info.
- update URLs for patch scripts
- add Trivial Patch Monkey URL
- add more references for submitting patches

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Randy Dunlap
2005-06-28 20:45:30 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6623e6205e
commit 84da7c0844
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@ -13,13 +13,14 @@ Allocating Device Numbers
-------------------------
Major and minor numbers for block and character devices are allocated
by the Linux assigned name and number authority (currently better
known as H Peter Anvin). The site is http://www.lanana.org/. This
by the Linux assigned name and number authority (currently this is
Torben Mathiasen). The site is http://www.lanana.org/. This
also deals with allocating numbers for devices that are not going to
be submitted to the mainstream kernel.
See Documentation/devices.txt for more information on this.
If you don't use assigned numbers then when you device is submitted it will
get given an assigned number even if that is different from values you may
If you don't use assigned numbers then when your device is submitted it will
be given an assigned number even if that is different from values you may
have shipped to customers before.
Who To Submit Drivers To
@ -32,7 +33,8 @@ Linux 2.2:
If the code area has a general maintainer then please submit it to
the maintainer listed in MAINTAINERS in the kernel file. If the
maintainer does not respond or you cannot find the appropriate
maintainer then please contact Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
maintainer then please contact the 2.2 kernel maintainer:
Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>.
Linux 2.4:
The same rules apply as 2.2. The final contact point for Linux 2.4
@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ What Criteria Determine Acceptance
Licensing: The code must be released to us under the
GNU General Public License. We don't insist on any kind
of exclusively GPL licensing, and if you wish the driver
of exclusive GPL licensing, and if you wish the driver
to be useful to other communities such as BSD you may well
wish to release under multiple licenses.