How to test my patches before submitting them to LKML?

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 12:51:42 -0800, Arlie Stephens said:

> Personally, I have 2 goals:
> - get paid
> - get good enough at linux to successfully play in the core kernel
>   (successful == get changes accepted routinely, etc. etc.)
>
> Doing the former mostly just requires finding the right upstream patch
> to apply to our product's elderly kernel, and/or explaining to
> developers why their design choices are creating performance issues.

Which actually kind of makes my point - you have a product, you have
an elderly kernel to support, and that in itself guides you to which
parts of the kernel you need to be paying attention to....
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