Re: [PATCH] ACPI: small formatting fixes

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Dec 12 2016 - 18:22:30 EST


On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 15:20 -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > Please... don't encourage people more, we have enough cleanup patches
> > as is.
>
> I recognize that this patch is relatively inconsequential, but it is my
> first patch to the Linux kernel, and is teaching me how to wrangle my
> email client and about the development work flow. I plan to write a
> blog post about my experience to help encourage more people to
> contribute. So I do really appreciate all of the feedback and patience
> for a relatively small patch. Thanks for your time. v3 incoming (will
> start a new thread).

Please create your first patch against something in drivers/staging/

Use the kernel newbies list and resources too
https://kernelnewbies.org/FirstKernelPatch
.