<div dir="ltr"><div>Wow that's quite a lot to read 🙄<br><br></div>Thank you Alexander, I'll take a look at those.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Saludos,</span><i><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><br>                                             Abel.</span></i><i><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></i></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 January 2017 at 07:35, Alexander Kapshuk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 8:33 AM, Alexander Kapshuk<br>
<<a href="mailto:alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com">alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:32 AM, Abel <<a href="mailto:akronix5@gmail.com">akronix5@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Hi!<br>
>><br>
>> First, I apologize as I guess this topic has been treated many times here.<br>
>><br>
>> I'm already coding for a patch intended to be merged with the kernel<br>
>> mainline. It adds a small new feature, so it's not a little bug fix, but<br>
>> still not so big deal.<br>
>> I'll get it compiling and working before I submit the patch to the mailing<br>
>> list, that's clear to me; but I'm sure there will be mistakes, stuff I<br>
>> didn't think/know about, some styling issues and, maybe, a technical<br>
>> discussion of how it should be done.<br>
>><br>
>> What I want to ask it's what are the best steps I should walk through in<br>
>> order to get this patch merged.<br>
>><br>
>> I've already done some modifications of the Linux kernel for university<br>
>> works, I've also contributed to other open source projects. But I've never<br>
>> tried to contribute to code to the upstream kernel code before.<br>
>><br>
>> Greetings,<br>
>><br>
>>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Akronix.<br>
>><br>
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> Please see in-tree documentation for development process found here,<br>
> <a href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/Documentation/development-process?id=refs/tags/v4.9.5" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://git.kernel.org/cgit/<wbr>linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-<wbr>stable.git/tree/Documentation/<wbr>development-process?id=refs/<wbr>tags/v4.9.5</a>.<br>
> It addresses all of your queries.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Here are a few more resources to consider:<br>
<a href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/plain/Documentation/SubmittingPatches?id=refs/tags/v4.9.5" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://git.kernel.org/cgit/<wbr>linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-<wbr>stable.git/plain/<wbr>Documentation/<wbr>SubmittingPatches?id=refs/<wbr>tags/v4.9.5</a><br>
<a href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/plain/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers?id=refs/tags/v4.9.5" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://git.kernel.org/cgit/<wbr>linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-<wbr>stable.git/plain/<wbr>Documentation/<wbr>SubmittingDrivers?id=refs/<wbr>tags/v4.9.5</a><br>
<a href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/plain/Documentation/CodingStyle?id=refs/tags/v4.9.5" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://git.kernel.org/cgit/<wbr>linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-<wbr>stable.git/plain/<wbr>Documentation/CodingStyle?id=<wbr>refs/tags/v4.9.5</a><br>
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