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Signed-off-by: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke.linux@gmail.com>
After this my local repository with the Linux kernel source code is synced with the [mainline](https://github.com/torvalds/linux) repository. Now we can make some changes in the source code. As I already wrote, I have no advice for you where you can start and what `TODO`in the Linux kernel. But the best place for newbies is `staging` tree. In other words the set of drivers from the [drivers/staging](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/staging). The maintainer of the `staging` tree is [Greg Kroah-Hartman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Kroah-Hartman) and the `staging`tree is that place where your trivial patch can be accepted. Let's look on a simple example that describes how to generate patch, check it and send to the [Linux kernel mail listing](https://lkml.org/).
As soon as your local copy of the linux kernel source code is in sync with the [mainline](https://github.com/torvalds/linux) repository, we can start to apply changes to it. I already wrote, I have no advice for where you should start and what `TODO` to choose within the Linux kernel. But the best place for newbies is the`staging` tree. In other words the set of drivers from the [drivers/staging](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/staging) directory. The maintainer of this tree is [Greg Kroah-Hartman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Kroah-Hartman) and the `staging`drivers are a good target for trivial patch fixes. Let's look at this simple example, that describes how to generate a patch, check it and send it to the [Linux kernel mail listing](https://lkml.org/).
If we look in the driver for the [Digi International EPCA PCI](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/staging/dgap) based devices, we will see the `dgap_sindex` function on line 295:
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