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.