Over the weekend Greg Kroah-Hartman sent out his various pull requests for the areas of the kernel he oversees. Among those is the staging area where this time around the notable activity isn't too much about feature work but many developers making some of their first contributions to the upstream kernel.

Greg KH explained in the [1]staging pull :

"Here is the "big" set of staging driver changes for 7.1-rc1.

Nothing major in here at all, just lots of little cleanups for the staging drivers, driven by new developers getting their feet wet in kernel development. "Largest" thing in here is the change of some of the octeon variable types into proper kernel ones."

Among the staging work from these contributors, some their first contributing to the Linux kernel, include renaming camel case variables, fixing line length warnings, fixing inconsistent indentation, removing unnecessary braces, fixing typos in documentation, and other minor changes from dozens of developers to help them in learning the Linux kernel codebase and the contribution workflow.

These staging changes are merged for Linux 7.1.



[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aeTe2obGAsnbnxM1@kroah.com/