From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Are Small Changes in kernel accepted as patches
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 06:27:34 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1406210627030.3230@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL3LdT79CvBphkoV_CHpu9tacT0+VQ4SBd0oY-S8EUG4eenZew@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 21 Jun 2014, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 2:37 AM, karthik <karthik.188@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey There,
> > I was just going through the linux-next source and found a small change
> > in one of the files. (Unnecessary else)
> > Now should I make this a patch and submit it or is it too small to submit?
> > Regards
> > Karthik Nayak
>
> Any patch can never be "to small", in fact small changes/patches are
> preferred over large changes/patches.
there is a special email address for innocuous patches --
"trivial at kernel.org".
rday
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-21 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-21 9:37 Are Small Changes in kernel accepted as patches karthik
2014-06-21 10:04 ` Jeff Kirsher
2014-06-21 10:27 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2014-06-21 14:23 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-06-21 14:42 ` karthik
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