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Now, I wish there were a guide to creating proper pull requests. From what I read, I got some things, but not a straightforward or actionable path. The only clear thing is the unmistakable feeling of not doing PRs properly.

There's https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/maintainer/pull-reque...

Note that you generally don't send pull requests when contributing to Linux unless your changeset is unusually big, so pull requests are usually only used by maintainers to forward their stuff to other maintainers. Regular contributors submit patches instead: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-pa...

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