Linux Wireless

Send patches to the mailing lists below. Kalle Valo reviews the patches within the next few days and, if they are ok, commits them to ath.git.

• To: ath10k@lists.infradead.org
• Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org

Preferably use ath.git master branch as the baseline for patches. Other trees can be used as well, but then the chances of conflicts are higher.

More info about submitting patches:

• linux-wireless submitting patches instructions
• linux-wireless git guide

Guidelines for patches are:

• MUST follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches
• MUST be compiler warning free.
• MUST be sparse warning free.
• Commit log MUST not be empty.
• The commit log MUST answer the question “Why?”:
  • Describe the motivation behind the bug.
  • How does it change the functionality from user's point of view?
  • Does it fix a bug? If it does, please describe the bug (doesn't need to be long). Also if there's a public bug report add a link to the bug report.
  • If a problem has been found during code review and doesn't fix a known issues, mention that in the commit log.
  • Ingo Molnar has written a nice description about what maintainers are looking from a commit log.
• If others have reported the issue commit log SHOULD use Reported-by: and Tested-by: tags.
• SHOULD be mostly checkpatch clean (though not all patchworks warnings make sense):
  • Patches SHOULD be sent with git send-email tool.
  • Patchsets SHOULD contain no more than 12 patches.
  • Patches SHOULD follow ath10k coding style
  • It's RECOMMENDED to test patches with ath10k-check

The terminology is from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt

The ath10k patch flow is this:

• Patch gets posted to the mailing lists.
• Kalle immediately applies the patch to pending and master-pending branches for build testing.
• Kalle waits two business days for patch being under review (unless the patch is urgent).
• If no comments or warnings, Kalle applies the patch to ath-next branch and sends a “Thanks, applied” reply.
• Kalle merges ath-next to master branch immeadiately after the patch is applies.
• Kalle merges ath-next into wireless-drivers-next roughly every 2-3 weeks
• David Miller merges wireless-drivers-next into net-next every two weeks or so
• Linus Torvalds merges net-next into linux.git during merge window