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Submitting patches
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If you fixed a bug or you want to add support for something, patches are
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welcome! The preferred method of submitting the patches to the project is by
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email to the iwd mailing list:
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2022-06-16 01:53:14 +02:00
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iwd@lists.linux.dev
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In order to ease the inclusion of your patch, it's important to follow
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some rules, otherwise it will likely be rejected by maintainers.
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iwd rules for submitting patches follow most of the rules used by Linux kernel
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(https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst) with
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some remarks:
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1) Do *not* add "Signed-off-by" lines in your commit messages. iwd does not
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use them, so including them is actually an error.
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2) Be sure to follow the coding style rules of iwd. They are listed in
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doc/coding-style.txt.
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3) Split your patch according to the top-level directories. E.g.: if you added
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a feature that touches files under 'unit/', 'src/' and 'doc/'
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directories, split in three separated patches. Care should be taken to
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structure patches in such a way as to not break compilation. The patches
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should be split even if breaking the compilation is unavoidable.
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4) The commit message should follow 50/72 formatting which means the header
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should be limited to 50 characters and the description should be wrapped at 72
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characters except if it contains quoted information from debug tools like
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backtraces, compiler errors, etc.
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