On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:50 AM, Pratyush Patel
[off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Christoph Lameter [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, Pratyush Patel wrote:

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I will be pursuing my undergraduate thesis research in the field of
real-time (operating) systems and as such, I expect to be closely
involved with the timer and interrupt subsystems in Linux (as well as
other areas, but to a lesser degree). I am also hoping to work with
the hrtimer subsystem, and while going through the latest code
(4.5-rc6) of the same, I found a very minor code-level change that
could be incorporated (redundant #ifdef). Would such a change in a
core kernel file be acceptable coming from a beginner? Or should I aim
for the staging drivers first?

Dont worry about staging. There is no staing for interrupts and timers.
Go
direct and post to the relevant maintainers and lkml

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I very much look forward to contributing my first patch!

love to see it.

Here's the archive link:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2165466

Please do let me know in case I did something wrongly.

Awaiting for it to be accepted!

Single line changes like that can be sent to Janitors mailing list.

Yes, I sent it to the maintainer (Thomas Gleixner), linux-kernel, and
the kernel-janitors mailing lists.