Re: [PATCH] staging: media: lirc: lirc_zilog.c: fix quoted strings split across lines

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 15:42 +0000, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> On 26 November 2014 at 01:49, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
[]
> > There is a script I posted a while back that
> > groups various checkpatch "types" together and
> > makes it a bit easier to do cleanup style
> > patches.
> >
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/11/794
> That is useful! I just run it on staging/octeon/ and it wrote two patches.
> Will submit them in a minute.

Please make sure and write better commit messages
than the script produces.

> > Using checkpatch to get familiar with kernel
> > development is fine and all, but fixing actual
> > defects and submitting new code is way more
> > useful.
[]
> I agree. I was just using checkpatch to learn about the development process.
> How to create patches, submit patches, follow review, and such. Better to
> do it
> with small changes like this first.

That's a good way to start.

> Which makes me wonder. Is my patch accepted? Will it be merged? I can do the
> proposed logging macro additions in a few days. Not sure yet how the final
> step of the process when patches get accepted and merged works.

You will generally get an email from a maintainer
when patches are accepted/rejected or you get
feedback asking for various changes.

Greg KH does that for drivers/staging but not for
drivers/staging/media.  Mauro Carvalho Chehab does.

These emails are not immediate.  It can take 2 or 3
weeks for a response.  Sometimes longer, sometimes
shorter, sometimes no response ever comes.

After a month or so, if you get no response, maybe
the maintainer never saw it.  You should maybe
expand the cc: list for the email.

When the patch is more than a trivial style cleanup,
Andrew Morton generally picks up orphan patches.

For some subsystems, there are "tracking" mechanisms
like patchwork:

For instance, netdev (net/ and drivers/net/) uses:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/
and David Miller, the primary networking maintainer
is very prompt about updating it.

There's this list of patchwork entries, but maintainer
activity of these lists vary:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/