2: Passes allnoconfig, allmodconfig
3: Builds on multiple CPU architectures by using local cross-compile tools
- or something like PLM at OSDL.
+ or some other build farm.
4: ppc64 is a good architecture for cross-compilation checking because it
tends to use `unsigned long' for 64-bit quantities.
CONFIG_PREEMPT.
14: If the patch affects IO/Disk, etc: has been tested with and without
- CONFIG_LBD.
+ CONFIG_LBDAF.
15: All codepaths have been exercised with all lockdep features enabled.
23: Tested after it has been merged into the -mm patchset to make sure
that it still works with all of the other queued patches and various
changes in the VM, VFS, and other subsystems.
+
+24: All memory barriers {e.g., barrier(), rmb(), wmb()} need a comment in the
+ source code that explains the logic of what they are doing and why.
+
+25: If any ioctl's are added by the patch, then also update
+ Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt.