questions for my first patch

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hi,

 I'm following the tutorial here:
https://github.com/gregkh/kernel-tutorial/blob/master/lxf_article/write_kernel_patch.txt

and I have some questions before sending my first patches:

 * I read on another mail on this list that I should write the patches
agains linux-next repository, is that right?
 * I tried sending the patches before (agains linux-2.6) configuring
git send-email to use gmail and gmail disabled my account saying that
there was "suspicious activity", then I tried using a local sendmail
and it bounced saying that it looked like spam or something like that.
my question is, can you recommend me a smtp server to use or some way
to send it using my gmail account?

now the more technical ones:

 * I'm trying to fix the warnings/erros from this file:
drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_cs.c I have to add KERN_*
facility to some printk calls, should I use INFO or DEBUG? how do I
know when to use which? I used KERN_INFO for my patches, but I'm not
shure
 * the tools shows this error:

drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_cs.c:261: ERROR: do not
initialise statics to 0 or NULL

which is the standard way to initialize statics?

that's all for now
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