Thank you very much Ben :) I did go though the links send by you & got the complete details for sending the kernel component.
Also my change has a patch in btrfs-tools. It will be nice if you can share the process for submitting that patch also. Regards, Ajesh On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Ben Gamari <bgamari.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ajesh js <coolajes...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I have used the btrfs filesystem in one of my projects and I have >> added a small feature to it. I feel that the same feature will be >> useful for others too. Hence I would like to contribute the same to >> open source. >> > Excellent! > >> If everything works fine and this feature is not already added by >> somebody else, this will be my first contribution to the opensource & >> I am excited to join the huge family of opensource :) >> >> Please help me with a precise steps to do the same. >> > In general the way to contribute is to send a patch for review. You > should have a look at the code style guidelines[1] and patch submission > guidelines[2] in the kernel tree. For nontrivial changes the patch > should be accompanied by a cover letter describing the change and the > motivations for any non-obvious design decisions. > > It is possible that your change is acceptable as-is. More likely, > however, is that there will be some discussion and requests for > changes. Eventually the review process will produce a merge-worthy > patch. The first step, however, is sending something concrete for > community review. > > Cheers, > > - Ben > > > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/CodingStyle > [2] > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
