Re: patches

Julia Lawall <[email protected]> Wed, 2 Apr 2025 09:38:52 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.outreachy
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Wed, 2 Apr 2025, Erick Karanja wrote:

> On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 08:43 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Please send more patches.  Greg has been busy with a conference in
> > the
> > past few days, so it's not necessary to wait for feedback. 
> > Generally, I
> > will send some feedback if there is a concern or suggestion for
> > further
> > work.
> >
> > If you have sent some patches already with no issues, try running
> > Coccinelle and sending some patches according to the suggestions.  It
> > is
> > not necessary to send such patches at a large scale.  Working on one
> > file
> > at a time is fine.
> >
> > julia
> >
> Hello, Thank you for the update I run one of the scripts you sent
> earlier and found that the suggested changes were on a struct defined
> in a header library. I would love to check further that truly this are
> boolean definitions but I can't access the header file. How do I go
> about this. Thank you.

What is the file you are concerned about?  The Linux kernel is entirely
self contains, so you should be able to find all relevant header files.
Perhaps a path is indicated in the Makefile.  So you may have to use find
. -name file.h to find the file.

julia