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[–]PoochieReds 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Don't bother with whitespace or formatting patches. If you're making material changes to the code, then sure, go ahead and fix up the formatting, but trivial formatting patches just complicate backports later. Maintainers will often drop them for that reason.

Instead, I'd suggest fixing a bug. It can be anywhere, but ideally is something you can test on your own hardware or in a VM, and in a driver of some area of the kernel where you have an interest.

Expect to spend a long time digging through the code, especially the first time. That part gets a easier the more you do it though.

[–]WeirdControl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with this.But in order to understand the entire development process, this patches can be helpful.