Submitting patches to non-staging

[Pratyush Patel]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Here's the archive link: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2165466

Please do let me know in case I did something wrongly.

Awaiting for it to be accepted!