Update to 3.4-final.

[linux-flexiantxendom0-3.2.10.git] / Documentation / SubmitChecklist

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
index 1053a56..dc0e332 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
+++ b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
@@ -9,10 +9,16 @@ 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
+
+2c: Builds successfully when using O=builddir
 
 3: Builds on multiple CPU architectures by using local cross-compile tools
    or some other build farm.
@@ -47,8 +53,8 @@ kernel patches.
 
 12: Has been tested with CONFIG_PREEMPT, CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT,
     CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES,
-    CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK, CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP all simultaneously
-    enabled.
+    CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK, CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP, CONFIG_PROVE_RCU
+    and CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD all simultaneously enabled.
 
 13: Has been build- and runtime tested with and without CONFIG_SMP and
     CONFIG_PREEMPT.
@@ -91,3 +97,13 @@ kernel patches.
 
 25: If any ioctl's are added by the patch, then also update
     Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt.
+
+26: If your modified source code depends on or uses any of the kernel
+    APIs or features that are related to the following kconfig symbols,
+    then test multiple builds with the related kconfig symbols disabled
+    and/or =m (if that option is available) [not all of these at the
+    same time, just various/random combinations of them]:
+
+    CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_SYSFS, CONFIG_PROC_FS, CONFIG_INPUT, CONFIG_PCI,
+    CONFIG_BLOCK, CONFIG_PM, CONFIG_HOTPLUG, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ,
+    CONFIG_NET, CONFIG_INET=n (but latter with CONFIG_NET=y)