Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932827Ab2JVCYE (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:24:04 -0400 Received: from oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com ([69.89.22.20]:47760 "HELO oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932742Ab2JVCYB (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:24:01 -0400 Message-ID: <5084AE43.6040607@xenotime.net> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:24:03 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap Organization: YPO4 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120827 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jimster480@gmail.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Submitting patches References: <1350871766.3673.0.camel@jimster480-Laptop> In-Reply-To: <1350871766.3673.0.camel@jimster480-Laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {1807:box742.bluehost.com:xenotime:xenotime.net} {sentby:smtp auth 64.134.136.30 authed with rdunlap@xenotime.net} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1061 Lines: 26 On 10/21/2012 07:09 PM, Jimster480 wrote: > I recently joined this list (in the last few days) as I was told I > needed to join it to submit kernel changes/patches/modifications. How do > I go about doing so? I made some optimizations (mostly removing > un-necessary calls, etc) in the autogroup scheduler, and cpuset and > another. The website that manages the list is not very informative so I > hope I am doing this right. Thanks in Advance! You do not have to join this mailing list to submit patches, but you may find it helpful. We hope that what you need to know is covered in some documentation files in the kernel source tree, primarily: Documentation/SumbittingPatches Documentation/SubmittingDrivers Documentation/SubmitChecklist If you still have questions after reading those, please let us know. -- 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/