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--- en:developers:documentation:submittingpatches [2018/04/13 13:24]
Kalle Valo Add section for top posting
+++ en:developers:documentation:submittingpatches [2018/06/14 08:10]
Kalle Valo [More patch work references] Change title, "patch work" is easy to confuse with patchwork (the tool)
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 More info: http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html
+==== Use RFC or RFT for patches not ready ====
-===== More patch work references =====
+If the patches are not yet ready to be applied by the maintainer mark them as RFC (Request For Comments) or RFC (Request For Test), this way the maintainer can easily see that the patch should not be applied yet. This saves a lot of maintainer's time.
+===== More references =====
 Here is a list of links to help you write better patches
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   * [[http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html|http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html]]
   * [[https://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt|Andrew Morton's ''The perfect patch'']]
+  * [[http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171026223701.GA25649@bhelgaas-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com|Make Bjorn's life easier (and grease the path of your patch)]]

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