From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pratyushpatel.1995@gmail.com (Pratyush Patel) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 07:20:18 +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 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!