Are Small Changes in kernel accepted as patches

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Sat Jun 21 06:27:34 EDT 2014


On Sat, 21 Jun 2014, Jeff Kirsher wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 2:37 AM, karthik <karthik.188 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey There,
> > I was just going through the linux-next source and found a small change
> > in one of the files. (Unnecessary else)
> > Now should I make this a patch and submit it or is it too small to submit?
> > Regards
> > Karthik Nayak
>
> Any patch can never be "to small", in fact small changes/patches are
> preferred over large changes/patches.

  there is a special email address for innocuous patches --
"trivial at kernel.org".

rday

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