Submitting patches to non-staging

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, Pratyush Patel wrote:

> 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?

Dont worry about staging. There is no staing for interrupts and timers. Go
direct and post to the relevant maintainers and lkml

> I very much look forward to contributing my first patch!

love to see it.