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> ... they might also be acceptable if they came from a genuine newbie 
> who does his first patch,

How would you really react if such Linux development beginners would dare
to pick any of the shown software change opportunities up?


> or if these patches represented genuine interest in the subsystem in question,

I am interested in various improvements where their size is varying between small
and big as usual.


> by being part of a larger work that adds new features or does some meaningful
> code transformations.

These updates happened also several times.

Regards,
Markus