KernelTrap: Using Quilt To Push Patches To -mm

“Greg KH offered a short ‘kernel maintainer’s HOWTO for quilt
and -mm,’ offering instructions on how one can utilize quilt to
create patchsets intended to be merged into Andrew Morton’s -mm
tree. He begins:

“‘So, You’re a kernel maintainer faced with the fact that you
are having people send you loads of patches, but don’t know how to
stage them in a fashion that others can see what you have and have
not accepted…'”

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