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.