BEST: Make all of your changes to upstream Linux. If appropriate, backport to the stable releases. These patches will be merged automatically in the corresponding common kernels. If the patch is already in upstream Linux, post a backport of the patch that conforms to the patch requirements below.
LESS GOOD: Develop your patches out-of-tree (from an upstream Linux point-of-view). Unless these are fixing an Android-specific bug, these are very unlikely to be accepted unless they have been coordinated with [email protected]. If you want to proceed, post a patch that conforms to the patch requirements below.
script/checkpatch.pl
UPSTREAM:
, BACKPORT:
, FROMGIT:
, FROMLIST:
, or ANDROID:
.Change-Id:
tag (see https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/user-changeid.html)Bug:
tag.Signed-off-by:
tag by the author and the submitterAdditional requirements are listed below based on patch type
UPSTREAM:
, BACKPORT:
UPSTREAM:
.(cherry-picked from ...)
line important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <[email protected]>
- then Joe Smith would upload the patch for the common kernel as
UPSTREAM: important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <[email protected]>
Bug: 135791357
Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
(cherry-picked from c31e73121f4c1ec41143423ac6ce3ce6dafdcec1)
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <[email protected]>
BACKPORT:
UPSTREAM:
.
UPSTREAM:
(cherry-picked from ...)
line BACKPORT: important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <[email protected]>
Bug: 135791357
Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
(cherry-picked from c31e73121f4c1ec41143423ac6ce3ce6dafdcec1)
[ Resolved minor conflict in drivers/foo/bar.c ]
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <[email protected]>
FROMGIT:
, FROMLIST:
,FROMGIT:
(cherry picked from commit <sha1> <repo> <branch>)
. Thislinux-next
for example).BACKPORT: FROMGIT:
important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <[email protected]>
- then Joe Smith would upload the patch for the common kernel as
FROMGIT: important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <[email protected]>
Bug: 135791357
(cherry picked from commit 878a2fd9de10b03d11d2f622250285c7e63deace
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/foo/bar.git test-branch)
Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <[email protected]>
FROMLIST:
Link:
tag with a link to the submittal on lore.kernel.orgBACKPORT: FROMLIST:
FROMLIST: important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <[email protected]>
Bug: 135791357
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <[email protected]>
ANDROID:
ANDROID:
Fixes:
tag that cites the patch with the bug ANDROID: fix android-specific bug in foobar.c
This is the detailed description of the important fix
Fixes: 1234abcd2468 ("foobar: add cool feature")
Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <[email protected]>
ANDROID:
Bug:
tag with the Android bug (required for android-specific features)