Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> said:
but it's far from easy for somebody who's
not already an experienced upstream kernel developer to manage that, LKML is
a tough place: there's politics making it hard for new contributors to get
their stuff in, there are many rules (technical, cosmetic (i.e. code
formatting rules), and social) you have to learn over the time,
I've heard this before, but I didn't find it to be that much different
than any other project where I've contributed changes. I think the
biggest annoyance was that, because the kernel project is so big and
hierarchical, you don't always get a lot of feedback (even when one of
the maintainers picks up your patch in their tree to go upstream).
--
Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.