On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 10:31:45AM +0100, Mohamed Karaoui wrote: > Hi list, > > This is an attempt to get a feeling of sending a first patch. Please feel > free to comment. > > I have few questions: > > - I have build this patch against the torvalds/linux.git. Does it matter > which tree I use as long as it works on the maintainer tree? > > - In this particular case I checked the maintainer. It seems that its > tree is something of 11 years old. I suggest working on drivers/staging/ first for basic coding style fixes like this, as they are encouraged there, but not necessarily in other parts of the kerenel at all. Good luck! greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
