Re: rfc: Updating SubmittingPatches with [RFC PATCH] and/or [WIP PATCH]

From	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: rfc: Updating SubmittingPatches with [RFC PATCH] and/or [WIP PATCH]
Date	2016-09-07 23:50 +0200
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On 09/07/16 12:47, Joe Perches wrote:

> Request for Comment and Work In Progress differences:
> 
> Maybe add something like this to Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> ---
>  Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> index 8c79f1d..aa76057 100644
> --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> @@ -404,6 +404,12 @@ convention to prefix your subject line with [PATCH].  This 
>  and other kernel developers more easily distinguish patches from other
>  e-mail discussions.
>  
> +If the patch or patch series is just a proposal to garner comments
> +use [RFC PATCH] before each patch subject.
> +
> +If the patch or patch seriies is incomplete or possibly contains known

                         series

> +defects and you would like others to see the work to date use
> +[WIP PATCH] before each patch subject.
>  
>  
>  11) Sign your work
> 


-- 
~Randy

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  Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2016-09-06 15:20 +0200
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      Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2016-09-06 18:30 +0200
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              Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2016-09-07 15:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-09-07 17:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2016-09-07 18:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mfd: ucb1x00: remove NO_IRQ check Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-09-07 18:30 +0200
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                rfc: Updating SubmittingPatches with [RFC PATCH] and/or [WIP PATCH] Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-09-07 21:50 +0200
                Re: rfc: Updating SubmittingPatches with [RFC PATCH] and/or [WIP  PATCH] Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2016-09-07 23:50 +0200

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