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

wei zhang asuka.com at 163.com
Sat Mar 29 22:03:36 EDT 2014


At 2014-03-30 00:48:06,"Greg KH" <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
>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!

Thank you very much for giving me the confidence, I will try my
best to fix it.

Regards,
Wei Zhang


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