kernel: update PATCHES with a stricter policy

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@37216 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73

diff --git a/target/linux/generic/PATCHES b/target/linux/generic/PATCHES
index 3460818..86ced46 100644 (file)
--- a/target/linux/generic/PATCHES
+++ b/target/linux/generic/PATCHES
@@ -13,3 +13,8 @@ and sorted into the following categories:
 8xx - other drivers
 9xx - uncategorized other patches
 
+ALL patches must be in a way that they are potentially upstreamable, meaning:
+
+- they must contain a proper subject
+- they must contain a proper commit message explaining what they change
+- they must contain a valid Signed-off-by line