Message-ID: <1481584942.29291.9.camel@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: small formatting fixes
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@gmail.com>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:22:22 -0800
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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
.