Are Small Changes in kernel accepted as patches
karthik
karthik.188 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 21 10:42:10 EDT 2014
On Saturday 21 June 2014 07:53 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 15:07:49 +0530, karthik said:
>
>> I was just going through the linux-next source and found a small change
>> in one of the files. (Unnecessary else)
> One-line patches that fix misleading logic are always welcome.
>
> Just remember to:
>
> 1_ Read Documentation/SubmititingPatches.txt and follow the directions
>
> 2) In the patch description/ changelog explain *why* the 'else' is unneeded
> as that's a change in the program logic. And then fix it correctly - if
> the else is unneeded because you can prove it's deal code because the
> if condition is always true, then the 'if then' part can probably be
> fixed up as well....
Brilliant
Thanks for the replies
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