[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/2] doc: add guidelines for coverity tags

[Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>]

     Added contribution guideline for adding tags
     when sending patches that have been raised by
     coverity

Signed-off-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
index 64408e7..e6b6e80 100644
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
@@ -257,6 +257,26 @@ tags for who reported, suggested, tested and reviewed the patch being
 posted. Please refer to the `Tested, Acked and Reviewed by`_ section.
 
 
+Coverity Related Patch Fixes:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+`Coverity <https://scan.coverity.com/projects/dpdk-data-plane-development-kit>`_ is a gratis
+static-analysis cloud-based service for the open source community. It is a tool for
+C,C++,C# and Java it is used for finding bugs through static analysis. If a patch
+fix is being sent to the mailing list due to a Coverity related issue,a
+Coverity issue tag should be inserted into the commit message body as so::
+
+     doc: fix some parameter description
+
+     Update the docs, fixing description of some parameter.
+
+     Coverity issue: 12345
+     Fixes: abcdefgh1234 ("doc: add some parameter")
+     Cc: author@example.com
+
+     Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.smith@example.com>
+
+
 Creating Patches
 ----------------
 
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