In particular, develop the sections about sending patches.
Reorder sections for a more logical flow.
Remove unnecessary or duplicate details too.
(From yocto-docs rev: 6c37d5bd9be7e65c923c3e95f478afc0e6064e8f)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Add missing steps and try to provide better guidance and more modern
solutions, for example keeping track of the cover letter in the branch
itself.
Also add subsections to divide the instructions into easier
to understand parts.
(From yocto-docs rev: 4abe87cb20d3f023d5b0178450823d072d3321c8)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
- Shifting the focus to multiple changes instead of just one
- Advising to create a branch for changes
- Removing unnecessary or too verbose explanations
- Adding useful resources and examples
(From yocto-docs rev: e7e47121fd979e034f8f40a043912640a6a25a5e)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
- Highlight that patchtest still needs improving
- Fix reference to this tool
(From yocto-docs rev: bdd5541b491729dcfa9e92a9acfc932c427a8ea0)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
They were coming from obsolete notes from the times
when people directly created or modified .pc files
from their recipes. Nobody should be doing that
any more and keep this can be confusing.
(From yocto-docs rev: 6b3bbf9507ac7014e95926d69383b585c5e19371)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Instead of "Submitting a defect".
We all write bugs, and nobody needs documentation
support for doing so!
(From yocto-docs rev: ce94f6ed029afc8c69e84354c03bd0a9ab14f867)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Reported-by: Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Starting from the original contents of dev-manual/changes.rst
and from text contributed by Richard Purdie.
(From yocto-docs rev: 55587d9dd009cbc92273376e0f7665b2d574d280)
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
