From b5247c854ed1cef30e0c7f4c6dfbf3c9d83bcf8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:21:59 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/SubmitChecklist: add rule #1 Add header file requirements. Compliments of Stephen Rothwell. Stephen calls this Rule #1, so I put it there, but I didn't want to demote any of the others in the list, so I made one of them number 2b. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/SubmitChecklist | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist index 1053a56be3b1..8916ca48bc95 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist +++ b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist @@ -9,10 +9,14 @@ Documentation/SubmittingPatches and elsewhere regarding submitting Linux kernel patches. -1: Builds cleanly with applicable or modified CONFIG options =y, =m, and +1: If you use a facility then #include the file that defines/declares + that facility. Don't depend on other header files pulling in ones + that you use. + +2: Builds cleanly with applicable or modified CONFIG options =y, =m, and =n. No gcc warnings/errors, no linker warnings/errors. -2: Passes allnoconfig, allmodconfig +2b: Passes allnoconfig, allmodconfig 3: Builds on multiple CPU architectures by using local cross-compile tools or some other build farm.