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| @@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ kernel patches. | |||
| 67 | 67 | ||
| 68 | 19: All new userspace interfaces are documented in Documentation/ABI/. | 68 | 19: All new userspace interfaces are documented in Documentation/ABI/. |
| 69 | See Documentation/ABI/README for more information. | 69 | See Documentation/ABI/README for more information. |
| 70 | Patches that change userspace interfaces should be CCed to | ||
| 71 | linux-api@vger.kernel.org. | ||
| 70 | 72 | ||
| 71 | 20: Check that it all passes `make headers_check'. | 73 | 20: Check that it all passes `make headers_check'. |
| 72 | 74 | ||
| @@ -83,3 +85,6 @@ kernel patches. | |||
| 83 | 23: Tested after it has been merged into the -mm patchset to make sure | 85 | 23: Tested after it has been merged into the -mm patchset to make sure |
| 84 | that it still works with all of the other queued patches and various | 86 | that it still works with all of the other queued patches and various |
| 85 | changes in the VM, VFS, and other subsystems. | 87 | changes in the VM, VFS, and other subsystems. |
| 88 | |||
| 89 | 24: All memory barriers {e.g., barrier(), rmb(), wmb()} need a comment in the | ||
| 90 | source code that explains the logic of what they are doing and why. | ||