How to propose a patch to the kernel mainline

Abel akronix5 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 26 19:16:49 EST 2017


Wow that's quite a lot to read 🙄

Thank you Alexander, I'll take a look at those.

Saludos,

*                                                        Abel.*

On 26 January 2017 at 07:35, Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 8:33 AM, Alexander Kapshuk
> <alexander.kapshuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Here are a few more resources to consider:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-
> stable.git/plain/Documentation/SubmittingPatches?id=refs/tags/v4.9.5
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-
> stable.git/plain/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers?id=refs/tags/v4.9.5
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-
> stable.git/plain/Documentation/CodingStyle?id=refs/tags/v4.9.5
>
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