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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 8:33 AM, Alexander Kapshuk > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:32 AM, Abel <[email protected]> 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. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Kernelnewbies mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > >> > > > > 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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