On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar <chambilkethakur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:50 AM, Pratyush Patel > <pratyushpatel.1995@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > 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. >> > >> >> Here's the archive link: >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2165466 >> >> Please do let me know in case I did something wrongly. >> >> Awaiting for it to be accepted! >> > Single line changes like that can be sent to Janitors mailing list. > Yes, I sent it to the maintainer (Thomas Gleixner), linux-kernel, and the kernel-janitors mailing lists. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
