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From:   Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: patches for staging:media drivers
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To:     Deepak R Varma <drv@mailo.com>,
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Hi,

On 06/11/2022 11:52, Deepak R Varma wrote:
> Greetings to all.
> My name is Deepak R Varma and I was part of the recent Outreachy internship
> round. I learned during this program that patches for the media drivers were
> prohibited to be included in the Outreachy effort due to lack of bandwidth for
> the maintainers to respond on those.
> 
> The Outreachy round is now over but I am continuing to work on code improvement
> and changes. I would like to know if it is okay for me to now identify
> opportunities in the media drivers and send patch proposal for your kind
> consideration. I intend to send couple of Coccinelle identified code
> improvements as patches.
> 
> Please let me know.

I won't say no but since the media maintainers will need to apply them,
the problem is the same.

Neil

> 
> Thank you,
> ./drv
> 
>