How to propose a patch to the kernel mainline

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:32 AM, Abel <akronix5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> First, I apologize as I guess this topic has been treated many times here.
>
> I'm already coding for a patch intended to be merged with the kernel
> mainline. It adds a small new feature, so it's not a little bug fix, but
> still not so big deal.
> I'll get it compiling and working before I submit the patch to the mailing
> list, that's clear to me; but I'm sure there will be mistakes, stuff I
> didn't think/know about, some styling issues and, maybe, a technical
> discussion of how it should be done.
>
> What I want to ask it's what are the best steps I should walk through in
> order to get this patch merged.
>
> I've already done some modifications of the Linux kernel for university
> works, I've also contributed to other open source projects. But I've never
> tried to contribute to code to the upstream kernel code before.
>
> Greetings,
>
>                                                        Akronix.
>
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Please see in-tree documentation for development process found here,
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/Documentation/development-process?id=refs/tags/v4.9.5.
It addresses all of your queries.