linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: android: ion: Change argument to kmalloc (checkpatch)

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Date:   Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:18:00 -0700
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Nick Fox <fox.nicholas.j@...il.com>
Cc:     arve@...roid.com, riandrews@...roid.com,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: android: ion: Change argument to kmalloc
 (checkpatch)

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 12:48:29PM -0400, Nick Fox wrote:
> Apologies for the spam, but I think my last reply got rejected by Google for
> some reason and didn't get delivered to the linux-kernel mailing list. My
> original reply is below:

You can not send html email to vger.kernel.org, it will be rejected,
please fix up your email client.  Also please do not top-post on mailing
lists:

A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post
Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top

> "Sorry about that--I'm brand new to contributing and got mixed up about which
> tree to use. Just so I'm understanding correctly, https://git.kernel.org/pub/
> scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/ is the tree I should be using to work
> on staging drivers?

It is the tree you should be using to do any new kernel development on,
but if you specifically want to work on staging drivers, the staging.git
tree on git.kernel.org is the place to work off of, specifically the
staging-next branch there.

hope this helps,

greg k-h