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> Seriously, this area is a minefield for new developers; it can be
> discouraging to put together your first patch, carefully follow
> everything found in SubmittingPatches, CodingStyle, SubmitChecklist, and
> HOWTO, appease the checkpatch.pl beast, carefully run get_maintainer.pl
> with the correct command-line options, and follow all the suggestions
> provided by reddit, Phoronix and 4chan, only to be told that the patch
> came in during the wrong _phase of the moon_ and they really should have
> known better.


Since when is Linus opening up the merge window by moon phases? :P 

Peter