Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757343AbXFVOTn (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:19:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753863AbXFVOTg (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:19:36 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de ([141.43.120.68]:60956 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753849AbXFVOTf (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:19:35 -0400 Message-ID: <467BDA76.7020909@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:19:34 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Markus Rechberger CC: Natalie Protasevich , Adrian Bunk , Michal Piotrowski , Oleg Verych , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Diego Calleja , Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel? References: <4673D63D.5020804@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070617004436.GU3588@stusta.de> <467501D0.3090203@googlemail.com> <20070617124508.GV3588@stusta.de> <6bffcb0e0706170617k32e79d96q5af1bcd7d9492cb8@mail.gmail.com> <20070617142950.GW3588@stusta.de> <467560CF.6090100@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070617182457.GY3588@stusta.de> <32209efe0706171150k37148228i60f5a7ab02d229f8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 813 Lines: 21 Markus Rechberger wrote: > just reading through it and cleaning up some code isn't so difficult > and can be done by many people - Doing cleanups is a good way to get into the matter, to become able to eventually fix bugs of the difficult type. > if they're allowed/wanted to do so. Everybody is allowed to submit. But there is a certain degree of both persistence and adaptability required to get one's first submissions upstream. However, these qualities are also required to fix difficult bugs. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -==- =-==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/