Query about submitting patches in general

craftychimera

Is it standard practice to test modules out-of-tree and commit in-tree and hence send that as your patch? I noticed that I can't actually test my modules in-tree because the vermagic wouldn't match because either it would be -dirty or the commit count wouldn't match (If you try to remove the -dirty tag by creating a new commit).

You can rebuild the kernel every time you wish to test and send a patch but that sounds like you lose all the benefits of working with modules.