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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] no-fork option for tapdisk2 debugging

To: Philipp Hahn <hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] no-fork option for tapdisk2 debugging
From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:29:20 +0100
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Philipp Hahn writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] no-fork option for tapdisk2 
debugging"):
> For debugging tapdisk2 it would be nice if forking into the background could 
> be disabled by passing some command line argument. The attached patch adds 
> such an option (-n).

This seems reasonable.

> The second patch re-indents four un-changed lines.

That should be folded into the first patch, which otherwise leaves the
indentation wrong.

> It would be nice if this could be included into the source core repository.

Also, you to add a Signed-off-by line to your patch to signify its
copyright status (see below).

Thanks,
Ian.

>From Documentation/SubmittingPatches in the Linux kernel tree:
 
        Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
 
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        (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
            have the right to submit it under the open source license
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            of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
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        (c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
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