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Mauro Carvalho Chehab 330ae7e99d Documentation/applying-patches.txt: Update the information there
This document is old: it is from Kernel v2.6.12 days.
Update it to the current status, and add a reference for the
linux-next tree.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-20 18:34:57 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 9299c3e92c Documentation/applying-patches.txt: convert it to ReST markup
- use the correct markup to identify each section;

- Add some blank lines for Sphinx to properly interpret
  the markups;

- Remove a blank space on some paragraphs;

- Fix the verbatim and bold markups;

- Cleanup the remaining errors to make Sphinx happy.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-20 18:34:32 -06:00
Oscar Utbult 2d69049ab7 Documentation: change "&" to "and" in Documentation/applying-patches.txt
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3127/when-to-use-instead-of-and

Signed-off-by: Oscar Utbult <oscar@oscr.io>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-09-26 11:10:11 +02:00
Randy Dunlap c594a50db4 [PATCH] Docs update: typos, corrections and additions to applying-patches.txt
Typos/corrections.

A few extra additions on top of Randy's fixes.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:54 -08:00
Jesper Juhl 90f2447d08 [PATCH] Documentation: Small applying-patches.txt update
Minor update to Documentation/applying-patches.txt

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:59 -08:00
Jesper Juhl 754c79768e [PATCH] Documentation: how to apply patches for various trees
Add a new document describing the major kernel trees and how to apply their
patches.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:42 -07:00