From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chambilkethakur@gmail.com (Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 09:50:44 +0000 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 1:50 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. > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > -- Thank you Warm Regards Anuz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20160304/87215efc/attachment.html