From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danang Wijanarko Subject: Re: Procedure for proposing kernel enhancements Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:03:30 +0700 Message-ID: <432F9822.8080207@its.ac.id> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Smarduch Mario-CMS063 , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Smarduch Mario-CMS063 wrote: > Hi, > I'm relatively new to Linux maillists and proceedngs although not so > kernel development. I'm wondering what is a procedure for proposing > kernel enhancements in Linux. There are several that we're using at > Motorola (some are CGL related) and we would like see if such enhancements may be > considered for kernel inclusion. 1. Read the procedure at Documentation/SubmittingPatches and probably Documentation/CodingStyle at the root source of kernel. Send it to Linus, don't use attachement. 2. Wait and hope that Linus will agree with your patch, or if your patch took so long, just begin the discussion on lkml about your changes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs