forgot to add asterisk before the file name. attached the new patch with
the asterisk

John Shahid <jvshahid@gmail.com> writes:

> Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> John Shahid <jvshahid@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Worth noting that this is my first patch to Emacs. Let me know if
>>> there's anything wrong with the way I submitted the patch.
>>
>> The patch looks fine, but the commit message should have a ChangeLog
>> style entry as described in CONTRIBUTE under "Commit messages".
>
> fixed and attached a new patch
>
>> And if you haven't assigned copyright for Emacs, it should also have a
>> 'Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes' line.  Note that we only accept up
>> to 15 lines worth of unassigned patches.  If you want to start the
>> assignment process, fill out the form at [1] and send it to
>> fsf-records@gnu.org (they will reply with further instructions).
>
> i filled out and sent the paper work. i also exempt this commit from the
> paperwork since it is a very minor change.
>
> thanks,
>
> -js
>
> From 113b30d8739dc8d1673a53d06b201e6c9ea1a54a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: John Shahid <jvshahid@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 14:33:00 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] lisp/linum.el: clarify linum-mode handling of `ARG'
>
> Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes
> ---
>  lisp/linum.el | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lisp/linum.el b/lisp/linum.el
> index 9df0c5d023..fa66d62bfe 100644
> --- a/lisp/linum.el
> +++ b/lisp/linum.el
> @@ -76,8 +76,12 @@ linum-delay
>  (define-minor-mode linum-mode
>    "Toggle display of line numbers in the left margin (Linum mode).
>  With a prefix argument ARG, enable Linum mode if ARG is positive,
> -and disable it otherwise.  If called from Lisp, enable the mode
> -if ARG is omitted or nil.
> +and disable it otherwise.
> +
> +When called from Lisp, toggles the mode if the argument is
> +`toggle', disables the mode if the argument is a non-positive
> +integer, and enables the mode otherwise (including if the
> +argument is omitted or nil or a positive integer).
>  
>  Linum mode is a buffer-local minor mode."
>    :lighter ""                           ; for desktop.el