kernel: update PATCHES with a stricter policy

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 37216

diff --git a/target/linux/generic/PATCHES b/target/linux/generic/PATCHES
index 34608188d5a56628786e0301a9be5a125271f9ca..86ced468048680cccbf7e8b4cdffd0a7607b2162 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