On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, Pratyush Patel wrote: > I will be pursuing my undergraduate thesis research in the field of > real-time (operating) systems and as such, I expect to be closely > involved with the timer and interrupt subsystems in Linux (as well as > other areas, but to a lesser degree). I am also hoping to work with > the hrtimer subsystem, and while going through the latest code > (4.5-rc6) of the same, I found a very minor code-level change that > could be incorporated (redundant #ifdef). Would such a change in a > core kernel file be acceptable coming from a beginner? Or should I aim > for the staging drivers first? Dont worry about staging. There is no staing for interrupts and timers. Go direct and post to the relevant maintainers and lkml > I very much look forward to contributing my first patch! love to see it. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
