Hi Dave,

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:50:15AM -0700, Dave Hylands wrote:

I've never submitted a patch to the kernel before. Is there a web page
which describes the process?

See the Documentation/SubmittingPatches document from the kernel source tree.  
You may also read this document via the git web interface at 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches

I gather from other posts that using gmail is unacceptable - which is
fine, I have other email accounts I can use to actually submit the
patch.

As far as I know only with the web GUI of gmail is problematic. You may still 
use your gmail account with other email clients. See 
Documentation/email-clients.txt or 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/email-clients.txt

baruch

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