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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/22] Replace comments with C99 initializers
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On 28.03.22 11:33, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Benjamin Stürz <benni@stuerz.xyz> writes:
> 
>> This patch series replaces comments with C99's designated initializers
>> in a few places. It also adds some enum initializers. This is my first
>> time contributing to the Linux kernel, therefore I'm probably doing a
>> lot of things the wrong way. I'm sorry for that.
> 
> Just a small tip: If you are new, start with something small and learn
> from that. Don't do a controversial big patchset spanning multiple
> subsystems, that's the hard way to learn things. First submit one patch
> at a time to one subsystem and gain understanding of the process that
> way.
> 

I actually thought this would be such simple thing. Do you know of any
good thing where to start? I already looked into drivers/staging/*/TODO
and didn't found something for me personally.

Should I drop this patchset and start with something different? If yes,
what would the proper way to drop it? Just announcing, that this is
going nowhere in a separate patch?