Update to 3.4-final.

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

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
index ac5e0b2..dc0e332 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
+++ b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
@@ -9,13 +9,19 @@ 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 something like PLM at OSDL.
+   or some other build farm.
 
 4: ppc64 is a good architecture for cross-compilation checking because it
    tends to use `unsigned long' for 64-bit quantities.
@@ -47,14 +53,14 @@ 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.
 
 14: If the patch affects IO/Disk, etc: has been tested with and without
-    CONFIG_LBD.
+    CONFIG_LBDAF.
 
 15: All codepaths have been exercised with all lockdep features enabled.
 
@@ -88,3 +94,16 @@ kernel patches.
 
 24: All memory barriers {e.g., barrier(), rmb(), wmb()} need a comment in the
     source code that explains the logic of what they are doing and why.
+
+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)