On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 06:10:56AM -0600, Simon Quigley wrote: > > in short, whitespace-only changes do not help too much. > > But they are encouraged for people who would like to get started with kernel > programming, Linus > himself says so. In the future I plan on giving more, but I wanted to get > familiarized with the > process. So I still think this should be accepted although it's just a > whitespace change.
But you are getting familiarized, you sent a patch, got feedback, defend your patches. That's a great start, but it does not mean that the patches end up merged. The decision is up to the maintainer(s) of the subsystem. Nobody will bite your head off if you do some trivial formal mistakes in your first patch submissions. The mistakes will be pointed out, you will be asked to resend. Sometimes, when the mistakes or formalities are not worth the email roundtrip, the maintainers fix it at commit time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
