Re: Fwd: A problem about linux/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 10:44:11AM +0800, Harry Wei wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 10:27:47AM +0800, harryxiyou wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:53:52 -0800
> > Subject: Re: A problem about linux/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> > To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@xxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> > akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 12:46:33PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 01:45:32 +0800 Harry Wei wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi us,
> > > >    I have seen linux-2.6.7/Documentation/SubmittingPatches but it hasn't described how to submit a translated document to kernel. I have also sent mail to <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, however, there is no response.
> > > >    I have translated linux-2.6.37/Decumentation/SecurityBugs(no one translated it up to now). I'd like to send it to maintainers, then add it into kernel directories. However, I don't know how i can do it. Can anyone tell me howto do it? Thanks so much :)
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > AFAIK, Greg KH handles all of the translation merging.
> > >
> > > Right, Greg?
> > 
> > Yes, please feel free to send me any translations in patch form and I
> Patch form? There is no patch form for translation document in kernel
> directories. Following is my translation document(for
> linux-2.6.37/Documentation/SecurityBugs). I have translated
> it(linux-2.6.37/Documentation/SecurityBugs) into Chinese.

No, you need to send me a patch, as described in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches that adds the file to the kernel source
tree.  That's the only way we can apply it, and is what I have done for
all of the other translated files in the kernel.

thanks,

greg k-h
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