...but davem wanted to keep it as documentation.  Who could have
imagined that?  That's how things work. Just find something else to fix.
Sooner or later you will get a patch accepted :-)

But you might consider taking his (hidden) advise and look for something
more challenging than checkpatch output.  There are plenty of bugs to
fix and drivers to write.  You might already own some hardware which
isn't fully supported? Try to find out why, and see if you can fix it.
Not everything is fixable this way, as lack of documentation often is
the problem.  But there are more than enough things that are.


Bj?rn