Could I send a patch which I'm not sure it was correct?

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 09:34:11PM +0800, wei zhang wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I found a bug and send a trivial patch to fix it. The kind maintainer gave me some advice about this patch.
> I'm not familier with it and this is a challenge to me, I want to do it as my best, but I'm afraid that it is impolite
> to send a patch, which I'm not sure it was correct!

Explain that you don't really know if this patch is correct, but you
tried to fix it the best you could, and could the maintainer and
community please review the patch.

It's fine if you don't know if it correct, that's how you learn!

good luck,

greg k-h