On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:42:18PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: >> (And this sort of analysis is exactly *why* people need to apply their brains >> when looking at checkpatch output....) > > No one has ever said that they shouldn't. > > Remember, I know _lots_ of kernel developers who started with just > "checkpatch cleanups on staging drivers" and they moved on to much > "higher" roles in the kernel developer ecosystem (jobs, maintainers of > subsystems, keynote talks at conferences, etc.) > thats encouraging information . :) thanks Greg > Don't "po po" it as something that shouldn't be a valid place to start, > it is, and is why I do the work to review all of the many thousands of > staging patches every release cycle. > > No one is forcing you to write those patches, or read / review them, so > don't discourage others to provide them either please. I most certainly > do not. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
