Patching Doubt

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Wed Sep 30 18:33:15 CDT 2009


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:25:36PM -0300, Marcelo Parisi wrote:
> I've contributed in the past (2004, 2005) to Kernel Janitors project, with
> some silly cleanup patches...Few days ago, I was checking the kernel source,
> and found some stuff that I could "cleanup" like I did in the past, however
> Kernel Janitors seems to be dead.

No, I still see patches sent to them and from them for every kernel
release.

> Should I do the patches anyway? Against which kernel version? How should I
> submit them?

Like as described in Documentation/SubmittingPatches.  Patches should
always be against the most recent kernel in order to have them accepted.

good luck,

greg k-h


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