From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-wr1-f46.google.com (mail-wr1-f46.google.com [209.85.221.46]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 53A2B612F for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2022 08:10:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wr1-f46.google.com with SMTP id w14so19646844wru.8 for ; Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:10:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=in-reply-to:content-disposition:mime-version:references:message-id :subject:cc:to:from:date:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=Y4QtVwIE3iZ0eHUBerHEnwY8Oj652LtFgZcRYLE4Yt4=; b=DkgSIIBu+pZGOaqX8BayQHmLJe8c/9VaQWRuMrnAyGSf4M4P1Ut5+8SUUcU9m9I7zb zuP/tqO/wSuU3QlJrg0wtSqMtZMDKNpURwmCwLIBEwm/yj6LjGUdPeh4aNhFE00IkKkj be6mIbgXgLyF09oyq76hHVG/XfxG3rPOvTyRaNG6LcUJlgl6QxRKCyMflID9josFKbCZ pBgNd4pujg5xyUvyZjC+dvnbWmEOrqbP6dI7Jz4kqApMpJNVk74kncPP5tiz0AOSCqR8 FjaJeNxg80RGj977KQbeXdarNhLnDEBAgBs6ZcAh02fckQT8/GhiEXsscSGhcIul6C0o jHDg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=in-reply-to:content-disposition:mime-version:references:message-id :subject:cc:to:from:date:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=Y4QtVwIE3iZ0eHUBerHEnwY8Oj652LtFgZcRYLE4Yt4=; b=0wF7XW2/+i+anEcgrg36okPV2sld/uWboIXy3gpjDAkNiGEDU/CH31paoDwr9+dcCv Dj/ac5XqZaUO57quq/+9olNaJVUwHxXqYvoM2/Fg4X6g8H4F8DoCD0DelM7hJUK2CHo3 wSwAKLFa8Y6oyxpUoGisxfI2c4g1U0l8Ac8wk3v0l4OU20Vg3Z+salbBx1UxtinvAeGf DbguK1H5xkSqSqjrRIAdWgiaoeFz+mkANVaAhehmqfgnTJXyjcT+ER9sYY9hL54iS61E 0W8Q+CLyGGzjEXJpCKp36laPlKZLcYX9ysf7WVyq7iGrnN/RxlI4j51844EaVbzHSPu/ BYvQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ACrzQf0V0CA3/eSr5cZl7eZ4w61PKrFlnc4ZEcV6mjn64G4Jzq//xlRM e51j+OLHR2dzS5rbdd409SgJdDsGRsQ6Bw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AMsMyM4kUvDPIy5Y848LkhbCiK8D3HDVHquXnAcIQWaFpwuBVc2yEvuVjN5j8IAtFHnVw1tRkghoLg== X-Received: by 2002:a5d:5c0f:0:b0:236:c429:361a with SMTP id cc15-20020a5d5c0f000000b00236c429361amr30800977wrb.475.1667895024558; Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:10:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([102.36.222.112]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w2-20020a5d6802000000b0023662245d3csm9451993wru.95.2022.11.08.00.10.23 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:10:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 11:10:21 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Neil Armstrong Cc: Deepak R Varma , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kevin Hilman , Jerome Brunet , Martin Blumenstingl , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: patches for staging:media drivers Message-ID: References: <48f4bda9-b5e3-9649-aab9-b529889bf110@linaro.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48f4bda9-b5e3-9649-aab9-b529889bf110@linaro.org> On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 06:29:30PM +0100, Neil Armstrong wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/11/2022 11:52, Deepak R Varma wrote: > > Greetings to all. > > My name is Deepak R Varma and I was part of the recent Outreachy internship > > round. I learned during this program that patches for the media drivers were > > prohibited to be included in the Outreachy effort due to lack of bandwidth for > > the maintainers to respond on those. > > > > The Outreachy round is now over but I am continuing to work on code improvement > > and changes. I would like to know if it is okay for me to now identify > > opportunities in the media drivers and send patch proposal for your kind > > consideration. I intend to send couple of Coccinelle identified code > > improvements as patches. > > > > Please let me know. > > I won't say no but since the media maintainers will need to apply them, > the problem is the same. Yeah. Me either. Those rules are for Outreachy so they don't apply to anyone else, but at the same time no one is going to Ack your patches without seeing them and especially for a subsystem they don't maintain. I always try to think about if maintainers will want my patches. Like I sometimes see people returning -1 instead of -ENOMEM but, you know, unless it reaches user space it's not technically a bug. You can't go around fixing everyone's bad taste. But everyone likes bug fixes. regards, dan carpenter