From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pratyushpatel.1995@gmail.com (Pratyush Patel) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 21:37:52 +0530 Subject: Submitting patches to non-staging In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:50 AM, Pratyush Patel > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote: >> > On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, Pratyush Patel wrote: >> > >> >> I will be pursuing my undergraduate thesis research in the field of >> >> real-time (operating) systems and as such, I expect to be closely >> >> involved with the timer and interrupt subsystems in Linux (as well as >> >> other areas, but to a lesser degree). I am also hoping to work with >> >> the hrtimer subsystem, and while going through the latest code >> >> (4.5-rc6) of the same, I found a very minor code-level change that >> >> could be incorporated (redundant #ifdef). Would such a change in a >> >> core kernel file be acceptable coming from a beginner? Or should I aim >> >> for the staging drivers first? >> > >> > Dont worry about staging. There is no staing for interrupts and timers. >> > Go >> > direct and post to the relevant maintainers and lkml >> > >> >> I very much look forward to contributing my first patch! >> > >> > love to see it. >> > >> >> Here's the archive link: >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2165466 >> >> Please do let me know in case I did something wrongly. >> >> Awaiting for it to be accepted! >> > Single line changes like that can be sent to Janitors mailing list. > Yes, I sent it to the maintainer (Thomas Gleixner), linux-kernel, and the kernel-janitors mailing lists.