Re: Ask for help, about the trivial patches.

["Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 15/07/07, TripleX Chung <triplex@zh-kernel.org> wrote:
> Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > Note: my explanations below are based on how I understand these
> > things, but I'm not the trivial patch monkey nor did I help create
> > these guidelines, so I'm in no way authoritative on the subject.
> >
> > On 13/07/07, TripleX Chung <triplex@zh-kernel.org> wrote:
> >> I am working on the chinese translated version of
> >> Documentation/SubmittingPatches and get some problem about the "Trivial
> >> patches".I can not understand what "Trivial patches" exactly means.The
> >> documentation said:
> >>
> >
> > If you are unclear of the meaning of the word "trivial", then take a
> > look here for an explanation: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/trivial
> >
> Thanks for your help.
> But I still have problems.
> Trivial means "of little worth or importance". But some of the examples
> in the rules are important, like "runtime fixes". Spell fixes must be
> unimportant, but most of the runtime fixes like memory leaks or NULL
> pointers must be important. I was still a little confused with them.

Think more along the lines of "simple, localized & easy to verify".

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