Submitting patches to non-staging

[Sudip Mukherjee]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Pratyush Patel
<pratyushpatel.1995 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am new to Linux kernel development and am hoping to contribute to
> the Linux community. I recently read Robert Love's LKD book, and have
> gone through some of the documents and patch submitting guidelines on
> kernelnewbies.org.
>
> I will be pursuing my undergraduate thesis research in the field of
> real-time (operating) systems and as such, I expect to be closely
> involved with the timer and interrupt subsystems in Linux (as well as
> other areas, but to a lesser degree). I am also hoping to work with
> the hrtimer subsystem, and while going through the latest code
> (4.5-rc6) of the same, I found a very minor code-level change that
> could be incorporated (redundant #ifdef). Would such a change in a
> core kernel file be acceptable coming from a beginner? Or should I aim
> for the staging drivers first?

If it is valid change it will be accepted. But better to start with staging,
learn and experience the process of patch submission then go to your
preferred subsystem.

regards
sudip