Staging: Easycap DC60 driver: Getting started

Greg KH gregkh at suse.de
Tue Nov 8 18:13:55 UTC 2011


On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 03:10:07PM -0300, Ezequiel García wrote:
> El 8 de noviembre de 2011 13:56, Greg KH <gregkh at suse.de> escribió:
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 01:50:40PM -0300, Ezequiel García wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I would like to start working in the staging easycap driver. I have one of
> > > those devices, so I will be able to do some testing.
> > >
> > > I have a couple of questions though:
> > > - Is there anyone working on it right now?
> > > - I have cloned gkh staging tree, is this ok? Is it ok to send the patches for
> > > this tree?
> >
> > Yes, please work off of the staging-next branch.
> >
> > > - Is it ok to send I little patch with some very minor fixes, just to see if
> > > I'm doing right?
> >
> > Yes, please do that.
> 
> I have seen patches are been sent just as plain text as mail body, do
> you think it is appropriate to use gmail web client
> or do you recommend another mail client?

Please read Documentation/email_clients.txt for hints on what to use and
how to use them.

> Should I cc the patches to any other mail list?
> (This mail is been rejected by the drivers-project list)

That was because you sent it with html.  If you don't do that, it will
be accepted.

> Also, please feel free to make me _any_ suggestion on any subject in
> order to ease your job.

Please read Documentation/SubmittingPatches and follow the rules there.

thanks,

greg k-h



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